Where does “uikkukana” come from?

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

uikkukana (Finnish): finfoot

Definitions

  1. finfoot

Ancestry of “uikkukana”, step by step

uikkukana 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 uikku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishuikkugrebe

Words derived from “uikkukana”

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