Where does “metsäkanalintu” come from?
metsäkanalintu (Finnish) comes from Finnish metsäkana, from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
metsäkanalintu (Finnish): grouse
Ancestry of “metsäkanalintu”, step by step
metsäkanalintu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish metsäkana
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | metsäkana | grouse; Synonym of riekko |
| 2 | Finnish | kana | chicken; hen; gallinaceous |
| 3 | Japanese | 仮名 | a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a... |
| 4 | Japanese | 名 | name; reputation; famous, great, noted |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 名 | name |
via Finnish lintu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lintu | bird; poultry |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | lintu | bird |
| 3 | Proto-Uralic | lunta | bird; goose |