Where does “kanat” come from?

kanat (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

kanat (Finnish): Nominative plural form of kana

Definitions

  1. Nominative plural form of kana

Ancestry of “kanat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkanachicken; hen; gallinaceous
2Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
3Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
4Middle Chinese名name
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