30 December 2013

paw is känpa

känpa = paw (noun) (some things Google found for "kanpa": an uncommon term; Kanpa International Sales is a Pakistani seafood company; a rare last name; kanpa can mean fund raising in Japanese when transliterated; name of a place in Maharashtra, India; name of a small community in Western Australia; similar Kanp'a is a place in South Korea)

Word derivation for "paw"
Basque = hanka, Finnish = käpälä
Miresua = känpa

Another word in Finnish for paw is tassu.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice said of her cat Dinah, "she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face..."

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