Where does “cannista” come from?
cannista (English) comes from English barista, from Italian barista, from English barrister, from English Bar, from German bär, from Middle High German bër, from Old High German beri, from Proto-West Germanic baʀi.
cannista (English): A service employee at a marijuana shop
Definitions
- A service employee at a marijuana shop
Ancestry of “cannista”, step by step
cannista traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English barista
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | barista | A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for... |
| 2 | Italian | barista | barman male, barmaid female, bartender North American, barista |
| 3 | English | barrister | A lawyer with the right to speak and argue as an... |
| 4 | English | Bar | A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length |
| 5 | German | bär | — |
| 6 | Middle High German | bër | bear |
| 7 | Old High German | beri | A berry |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | baʀi | berry |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | bazją | berry |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂- | to shine, glow light; to speak, say |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂-s-ri- | — |
via English cannabis
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cannabis | A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers |
| 2 | Latin | cannabis | hemp; dative/ablative plural of cannabum;... |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | κάνναβις | hemp; hemp seed |