Where does “ruohokanukka” come from?
ruohokanukka (Finnish) comes from Finnish kanukka, from Finnish kana, from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.
ruohokanukka (Finnish): bunchberry, especially the Eurasian bunchberry or...
Definitions
- bunchberry, especially the Eurasian bunchberry or...
Ancestry of “ruohokanukka”, step by step
ruohokanukka traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kanukka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kanukka | dogwood |
| 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 ruoho
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ruoho | grass mass noun; blade of grass individual specimen |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | rooho | grass |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | grasą | grass |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰreh₁- | to become green, grow; to grow; to green, to grow |