- κάννη
- κάννα, κάννηGrammatical information: f., often plur.Meaning: `reed, Arundo donax, reed-fence, -mat' (Com., inscr., Plb.).Other forms: s. below!Dialectal forms: Myc. kononi-phi \/kanōni-phi\/Compounds: as 1. member in κανη-φόρος f. `Korbträgerin' (Ar.; on the comp.-vowel Schwyzer 438f.) with κανηφορ-έω, -ία, -ικός.Derivatives: 1. κάνης, -ητος m. `reed mat' (Solon. Law in Plu. Sol. 21, Crates Com., D. H.) with καννητο-ποιός (Hippon. 116). 2. κάννηκες πλέγματα ταρσῶν H. - 3. κανοῦν, Ion. κάνεον, ep. also -ειον n. `reed basket, dish' (Il.; substant. adj.). Diminut. κανίσκος, -ίσκιον (Ar.), κανίδιον (pap.); further κάναστρον (Hom. Epigr., Nicophon, Attica, Kreta; cf. on ζύγαστρον), also -αυστρον (like θερμα(ύ)στρα; s. θερμός), -ιστρον, -υστρον (inscr., pap., Poll.; Kretschmer Glotta 11, 283) = Lat. canistrum; from there καναστραῖα κοῖλά τινα ἀγγεῖα Suid.; κάνασθον (Naukratis). - Zu κάν(ν)αβος, κάν(ν)αθρον, κανών s. bes.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: From Babyl.-Assyr. qanū `reed', which may come from Sumer.-Accad. gin `id.', Ugar. qn, Punic qn'. S. E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 47.From κάννα Lat. canna `reed etc.'; 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 \/konōni-phi\/ which shows α\/ο, which is also Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 1,779
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