Where does “teerikana” come from?

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

teerikana (Finnish): grey hen, heath hen female black grouse

Definitions

  1. grey hen, heath hen female black grouse

Ancestry of “teerikana”, step by step

teerikana traces back through two 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 teeri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishteeriblack grouse, "Lyrurus tetrix", formerly "Tetrao...
2Proto-Finnictetriblack grouse
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