Where does “kinakäk” come from?

kinakäk (Swedish) comes from Swedish Kina, from Chinese 秦.

kinakäk (Swedish): (often more or less westernized) Chinese food

Definitions

  1. (often more or less westernized) Chinese food

Ancestry of “kinakäk”, step by step

kinakäk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish Kina

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SwedishKinaChina
2Chinese秦—

via Proto-Turkic KAk-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-TurkicKAk-to hit, knock, tear
Every word from Chinese 秦 →Every word from Swedish Kina →