Where does “viidakkokana” come from?

viidakkokana (Finnish) comes from Finnish viidakko, from Finnish viita, from Finnish -lä, from Finnish -as, from Proto-Finnic -s, from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s.

viidakkokana (Finnish): red junglefowl

Definitions

  1. red junglefowl

Ancestry of “viidakkokana”, step by step

viidakkokana traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish viidakko

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviidakkothicket; jungle
2FinnishviitaA thicket of young deciduous trees
3Finnish-läFront vowel variant of -la
4Finnish-asForms some adjectives; Forms some nouns
5Proto-Finnic-sForms nouns
6Proto-Finno-Ugric-s—

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

Words derived from “viidakkokana”

Every word from Proto-Finno-Ugric -s →Every word from Finnish -lä →Every word from Finnish -as →