Where does “mississipinkäki” come from?
mississipinkäki (Finnish) comes from Finnish käki, from Japanese 柿, from Old Japanese 柿.
mississipinkäki (Finnish): black-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus New World species of cuckoo
Definitions
- black-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus erythropthalmus New World species of cuckoo
Ancestry of “mississipinkäki”, step by step
mississipinkäki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish käki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | käki | cuckoo |
| 2 | Japanese | 柿 | a persimmon, especially the Japanese persimmon;... |
| 3 | Old Japanese | 柿 | — |
via Finnish Mississippi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Mississippi | — |
| 2 | English | Mississippi | Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in... |
| 3 | Ojibwe | misi-ziibi | great river |