Where does “kanatäi” come from?
kanatäi (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
kanatäi (Finnish): chicken louse usually
Ancestry of “kanatäi”, step by step
kanatäi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kana
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kana | chicken; hen; gallinaceous |
| 2 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 3 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |
via Finnish täi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | täi | louse; A gold nugget between 2 mm to 4 mm by the... |
| 2 | Finnish | tahi | or |
| 3 | Finnish | tahtoa | to want; to tend; Partitive singular form of... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | tahtoidak | to want |