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|etymtx=κάννη<br />Grammatical information: f., often plur.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">reed, Arundo donax, reed-fence, -mat</b> (Com., inscr., Plb.).<br />Other forms: s. below!<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. <b class="b2">kononi-phi</b> \/<b class="b2">kanoni-phi</b>\/<br />Compounds: as 1. member in <b class="b3">κανη-φόρος</b> f. [[Korbträgerin]] (Ar.; on the comp.-vowel Schwyzer 438f.) with <b class="b3">κανηφορ-έω</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b>, <b class="b3">-ικός</b>.<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">κάνης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> m. <b class="b2">reed mat</b> (Solon. Law in Plu. Sol. 21, Crates Com., D. H.) with <b class="b3">καννητο-ποιός</b> (Hippon. 116). 2. <b class="b3">κάννηκες πλέγματα ταρσῶν</b> H. - 3. <b class="b3">κανοῦν</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">κάνεον</b>, ep. also <b class="b3">-ειον</b> n. <b class="b2">reed basket, dish</b> (Il.; substant. adj.). Diminut. <b class="b3">κανίσκος</b>, <b class="b3">-ίσκιον</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">κανίδιον</b> (pap.); further <b class="b3">κάναστρον</b> (Hom. Epigr., Nicophon, Attica, Kreta; cf. on <b class="b3">ζύγαστρον</b>), also <b class="b3">-αυστρον</b> (like <b class="b3">θερμα(ύ)στρα</b>; s. [[θερμός]]), <b class="b3">-ιστρον</b>, <b class="b3">-υστρον</b> (inscr., pap., Poll.; Kretschmer Glotta 11, 283) = Lat. [[canistrum]]; from there <b class="b3">καναστραῖα κοῖλά τινα ἀγγεῖα</b> Suid.; <b class="b3">κάνασθον</b> (Naukratis). - Zu <b class="b3">κάν(ν)αβος</b>, <b class="b3">κάν(ν)αθρον</b>, <b class="b3">κανών</b> s. bes.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: From Babyl.-Assyr. [[qanū]] [[reed]], which may come from Sumer.-Accad. [[gin]] <b class="b2">id.</b>, Ugar. [[qn]], Punic [[qn]]. S. E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 47.From <b class="b3">κάννα</b> Lat. [[canna]] <b class="b2">reed etc.</b>; s. W.-Hofmann s. v. - Fur. 303 points out that <b class="b3">κάναθρον</b> etc. are clearly Pre-Greek formations, so that the word may have been of Anatolian origin; note further Myc. [[kononipi]] \/<b class="b2">kononi-phi</b>\/ which shows <b class="b3">α</b>\/<b class="b3">ο</b>, which is also Pre-Greek.

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