Words that come from Laurentian “kanata”

400 words across 69 languages descend from Laurentian kanata — including Canada, inch, Canadian, painter, ounce, panther, feline, lynx.

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English (127)

Finnish (32)

Italian (22)

Latin (20)

French (15)

Translingual (15)

Portuguese (14)

Ukrainian (12)

Spanish (9)

Romanian (9)

Middle English (7)

Dutch (6)

Polish (6)

Japanese (5)

Latvian (5)

Irish (5)

Old French (5)

Turkish (4)

Korean (4)

Esperanto (4)

Swahili (4)

Serbo-Croatian (4)

Catalan (3)

Chinese (3)

Greek (3)

Mohawk (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Tagalog (2)

Russian (2)

Zulu (2)

Swedish (2)

Ottoman Turkish (2)

Hindi (2)

Old English (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Lithuanian (2)

Middle French (1)

Friulian (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Abenaki (1)

Faroese (1)

Arabic (1)

Galician (1)

Icelandic (1)

Hiligaynon (1)

Armenian (1)

Georgian (1)

Old Irish (1)

Gothic (1)

Yiddish (1)

Lao (1)

Danish (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Old Armenian (1)

Assamese (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Indonesian (1)

Norman (1)

Thai (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Leonese (1)

Canadian French (1)

New Latin (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Germanic (1)

Old High German (1)

Paraguayan Guaraní (1)