cane
French
noun
Definitions
- duck female duck
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French cane (female duck, little boat, literally floater, duck) inherited from Old French cane (ship, sugar cane, boat, waterbird) derived from Middle Low German kane (boat) derived from Proto-Germanic *kaną (boat, vessel).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kaną
Gloss
boat, vessel
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
器
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- knarr English
- canna Latin
- Kahn German
- Stocherkahn German
- canot French
- canoter French
- canotier French
- canoa Spanish, Castilian
- *kanô Proto-Germanic
- *kaną Proto-Germanic
- *knarruz Proto-Germanic
- *kēnjǭ Proto-Germanic
- kanot Swedish
- cnearr Old English
- cane Middle English
- knarre Middle English
- knǫrr Old Norse
- kæna Old Norse
- knarr Danish
- cane Old French
- knörr Icelandic
- kæna Icelandic
- κανό Greek (modern)
- kano Turkish
- knørrur Faroese
- knørur Faroese
- ca nô Vietnamese
- canard Middle French
- cane Middle French
- canot Middle French
- kane Middle Low German
- កាណូត Central Khmer
- knar Old Danish
- ganagana Malagasy
- *kanowa Taino