Where does “canny” come from?
Canny comes from Middle English -y, Middle French -ie, Latin -ia, Latin -ivus, Latin -ia, and Proto-Indo-European -kos.
canny (English): Careful, prudent, cautious; Knowing, shrewd,...
Definitions
- Careful, prudent, cautious; Knowing, shrewd,...
Ancestry of “canny”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | uncanny | Strange, and mysteriously unsettling ; weird;... |
| 2 | English | un- | not; absent; lacking; not; negative; contrary to... |
| 3 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 4 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |
Words derived from “canny”