Cannes
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French Cannes, from earlier Canois, Canua.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What language are the older forms? Occitan/Provençal? What’s the further etymology?”)
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Cannes
- A city in the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France
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a city in France
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French Canua, possibly related to cane (“reed”). Or, possibly from a pre-Indo-European substrate toponym *kan ("tall, height").
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Cannes ?
References edit
- Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.
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Cannes f
- Cannes (a city in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France)