Where does “nokikana” come from?

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

nokikana (Finnish): coot; Eurasian coot, common coot

Definitions

  1. coot; Eurasian coot, common coot

Ancestry of “nokikana”, step by step

nokikana traces back through 3 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 noki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishnokisoot; Indicative present connegative form of...
2Proto-Finnicnokisoot

via Karelian kana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kareliankanahen

Words derived from “nokikana”

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