κάννα: Difference between revisions

|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. [[kononi-phi]] \/[[kanoni-phi]]\/<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. [[κάνης]], <b class="b3">-ητος</b> m. [[reed mat]] (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. [[κανοῦν]], Ion. [[κάνεον]], ep. also <b class="b3">-ειον</b> n. [[reed basket]], [[dish]] (Il.; substant. adj.). Diminut. [[κανίσκος]], <b class="b3">-ίσκιον</b> (Ar.), [[κανίδιον]] (pap.); further [[κάναστρον]] (Hom. Epigr., Nicophon, Attica, Kreta; cf. on [[ζύγαστρον]]), 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.; [[κάνασθον]] (Naukratis). - Zu <b class="b3">κάν(ν)αβος</b>, <b class="b3">κάν(ν)αθρον</b>, [[κανών]] 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 [[κάννα]] Lat. [[canna]] <b class="b2">reed etc.</b>; s. W.-Hofmann s. v. - Fur. 303 points out that [[κάναθρον]] etc. are clearly Pre-Greek formations, so that the word may have been of Anatolian origin; note further Myc. [[kononipi]] \/[[kononi-phi]]\/ which shows [[α]]\/[[ο]], which is also Pre-Greek.