Where does “cannamom” come from?
cannamom (English) comes from English canna, from Scots cannae, from Scots can, from Middle English can, from Middle English cunnen, from Old English cunnan, from Proto-West Germanic kunnan, from Proto-Germanic kunnaną — to know.
cannamom (English): A mother who regularly consumes cannabis
Definitions
- A mother who regularly consumes cannabis
Ancestry of “cannamom”, step by step
cannamom traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English canna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | canna | Any member of the genus "Canna" of tropical... |
| 2 | Scots | cannae | cannot |
| 3 | Scots | can | can; be able to |
| 4 | Middle English | can | Alternative form of canne |
| 5 | Middle English | cunnen | To know about; To be able to; to have the... |
| 6 | Old English | cunnan | to know, to be familiar with; can, to know how |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | kunnan | to recognise; to know how, to be able |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | kunnaną | to know, to be familiar with, to recognise; to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵneh₃- | to know |