Words that come from Proto-Arawak “kanawa”

95 words across 41 languages descend from Proto-Arawak kanawa — including canoe, canoeing, canoeist, canoeman, canoer, canoelike, canoeable, canoewood.

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English (16)

Finnish (10)

Italian (7)

French (6)

Romanian (6)

Spanish (4)

Portuguese (4)

Dutch (3)

Catalan (2)

Khmer (2)

Swedish (2)

German (2)

Russian (2)

Lithuanian (2)

Seri (1)

Faroese (1)

Turkish (1)

Middle French (1)

Greek (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Maquiritari (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Jamaican Creole (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Taíno (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Wayuu (1)

Galician (1)

Latin (1)

Huichol (1)

San Juan Colorado Mixtec (1)

Irish (1)

Ahtna (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Danish (1)

Tagalog (1)

Esperanto (1)

Cornish (1)

Ye'kwana (1)

Kazakh (1)