Where does “kesäkana” come from?

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

kesäkana (Finnish): a chicken taken in for the summer as a pet or for eggs or meat

Definitions

  1. a chicken taken in for the summer as a pet or for eggs or meat

Ancestry of “kesäkana”, step by step

kesäkana traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kana

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

via Finnish kesä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkesäsummer; fallow; Abbreviation of kesäkuu
2Proto-Finnickesäsummer; fallow
3Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁ós-r—
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