Where does “cranny” come from?
Cranny comes from English crank plus the English suffix -y, which derives from Middle French -ie, itself from Latin -ia and -ivus, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European -kos.
cranny (English): A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or...
Definitions
- A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or...
Ancestry of “cranny”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | crany | — |
| 2 | Middle English | cran | — |
| 3 | Old French | cran | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | cranium | skull |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | κρανίον | skull; head |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κάρα | head, face; the head or top of anything, as of a... |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | *kárahə | — |
Words derived from “cranny”