Where does “luhtakana” come from?
luhtakana (Finnish) comes from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
luhtakana (Finnish): water rail; Any bird of the genus "Rallus"
Definitions
- water rail; Any bird of the genus "Rallus"
Ancestry of “luhtakana”, step by step
luhtakana 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 luhta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | luhta | swamp; flood meadow; agricultural farmland... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | luhta | flood-meadow |
Words derived from “luhtakana”