Words that come from Ancient Greek κάννα

400 words across 42 languages descend from Ancient Greek κάννα — including channel, Canadian, canal, cannon, cane, canon, canonical, canyon.

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English (165)

Italian (63)

French (37)

Latin (16)

Dutch (16)

Russian (8)

Esperanto (8)

Hungarian (7)

Catalan (6)

Swedish (6)

Danish (6)

Welsh (6)

Irish (5)

Polish (4)

Greek (4)

Middle French (3)

Japanese (3)

Korean (3)

Old Spanish (2)

Asturian (2)

Venetian (2)

Turkish (2)

Tagalog (2)

Cornish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Translingual (2)

Galician (2)

Dalmatian (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Votic (1)

Icelandic (1)

Macedonian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Cebuano (1)

Pangasinan (1)

Hebrew (1)

Czech (1)

Chinese (1)

Ido (1)

Zulu (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)