Where does “kana” come from?
kana (Papiamentu) comes from Spanish caminar, from Italian camminare, from Italian cammino, from Latin cammīnus, from Gaulish unknown, from Proto-Indo-European (s)pingos — chaffinch.
kana (Papiamentu): to walk; to go
Ancestry of “kana”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | caminar | to walk; to stroll; to travel, to trek |
| 2 | Italian | camminare | to walk, to tread, to travel, to wander, to... |
| 3 | Italian | cammino | walk, way, path; first-person singular present... |
| 4 | Latin | cammīnus | — |
| 5 | Gaulish | unknown | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pingos | chaffinch |