Where does “pensaskanukka” come from?

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

pensaskanukka (Finnish): red-barked dogwood, white dogwood, Siberian dogwood, Cornus alba

Definitions

  1. red-barked dogwood, white dogwood, Siberian dogwood, Cornus alba

Ancestry of “pensaskanukka”, step by step

pensaskanukka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kanukka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkanukkadogwood
2Finnishkanachicken; hen; gallinaceous
3Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
4Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
5Middle Chinese名name

via Finnish pensas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpensasbush; shrub
2Proto-Finnicpensasbush
3Proto-Finnicpensa—
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