User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kannā

This entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Latin canna (“reed, reed pipe”), or perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gandʰ-ō, from *gandʰ- (“vessel”), compare Middle Irish gand (“vessel”).

Noun

kannā f

1. can
2. jug

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kannā
Genitive	*kannōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kannā	*kannōn
Accusative	*kannōn	*kannōn
Genitive	*kannōn	*kannōnō
Dative	*kannōn	*kannōm, *kannum
Instrumental	*kannōn	*kannōm, *kannum

Descendants

• Old English: canne
  • Middle English: canne, cane, kan, can
    • English: can
    • Scots: can
      • → Scottish Gaelic: cana
    • Yola: cooan, koan, kon
• Old Frisian: kanne, konne
  • Saterland Frisian: Kanne
  • West Frisian: kanne
• Old Saxon: kanna
  • Middle Low German: kanne
    • German Low German: Kanne, Kann
    • → Danish: kande
    • → Norwegian: kanna
    • → Swedish: kanna
      • → Estonian: kann
• Old Dutch: *kanna
  • Middle Dutch: kanne
    • Dutch: kan
• Old High German: kanna, channa
  • Middle High German: kanne
    • German: Kanne
      • → Hungarian: kanna
      • → Bulgarian: ка̀на (kàna)
      • → Lower Sorbian: kana
    • Luxembourgish: Kan
• →? Medieval Latin: canna, cana (reborrowing?)
  • Old French:

    Anglo-Norman: cane, canne, chane, chenne [1155, Wace]

  • → Byzantine Greek: καννίον (kanníon), κανίον (kaníon), κανίν (kanín)
    • → Mishnaic Hebrew: קנון, קאנון
    • → Classical Mandaic: ࡒࡀࡍࡉࡍࡀ (/⁠qannīnā⁠/)
    • → Classical Syriac: ܩܢܝܢܬܐ (/⁠qannīntā⁠/)
      • → Arabic: قِنِّينَة (qinnīna)
  • ⇒ Medieval Latin: cannata, canneta, caneta, canada [abt. 1130, Hirsau, Germany]
    • Franco-Provençal:

      Savoyard: kanèta

    • Old French: canette [1322]
      • Middle French: quennette, kennette
        • French: canette
    • Occitan:

      Languedocien: caneta

      Provençal: caneta f, canǫt m

    • → Albanian: kënatë
    • → Old High German: kanta, kannata