Where does “kana” come from?

kana (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Japanese 仮名, from Japanese 名, from Middle Chinese 名 — name.

kana (Serbo-Croatian): henna; kana

Definitions

  1. henna; kana

Ancestry of “kana”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese仮名a category of Japanese syllabary scripts: kana; a...
2Japanese名name; reputation; famous, great, noted
3Middle Chinese名name
Every word from Middle Chinese 名 →Every word from Japanese 名 →Every word from Japanese 仮名 →