Where does “kimonohiha” come from?
kimonohiha (Finnish) comes from Finnish kimono, from Japanese 着物, from Japanese 物, from Japanese 物言い, from Japanese 物言う — to talk.
kimonohiha (Finnish): kimono sleeve
Ancestry of “kimonohiha”, step by step
kimonohiha traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kimono
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kimono | kimono |
| 2 | Japanese | 着物 | a kimono |
| 3 | Japanese | 物 | thing; story, genre |
| 4 | Japanese | 物言い | a way of speaking, wording |
| 5 | Japanese | 物言う | to talk |
via Finnish hiha
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | hiha | sleeve or an arm of a shirt, jacket etc; maunch |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | hiha | sleeve |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Permic | šiša | — |
| 4 | Proto-Finno-Permic | iša | — |
Words derived from “kimonohiha”