Words that come from Proto-Indo-European gan-

115 words across 29 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European gan- — including can, cane, uncanny, canning, canny, cany, uncannily, cannery.

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English (43)

Middle English (8)

Finnish (7)

German (7)

Scots (6)

Hungarian (5)

Danish (3)

Proto-Germanic (3)

Old Norse (3)

Norman (3)

Middle Irish (2)

Icelandic (2)

Swedish (2)

Estonian (2)

Faroese (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Lower Sorbian (2)

Irish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Dutch (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Volapük (1)

Maltese (1)

Korean (1)

Old English (1)

Galician (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Old High German (1)