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Where does “cannery” come from?

Cannery comes from English canning (the process of preserving food in cans) plus the suffix -ery, ultimately from Latin canna meaning reed or tube, via Old French cane and Middle English connen.

cannery (English): A factory that produces canned goods

Definitions

  1. A factory that produces canned goods

Ancestry of “cannery”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-eryAdded to nouns to form other nouns meaning the...
2French-eriedenoting a shop selling a certain product;...
3Old French-erieused to form feminine nouns
4Old French-ieindicates a feminine noun, often an abstract one
5Latin-iaUsed to form a feminine abstract noun, usually...
6Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
7Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
8Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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