Talk:Canaan
The pronunciation should be given as the obvious one (for non-native speakers) is incorrect.
Hypothesis: "Canaan" ("Kena‘an","khnen" | כְּנָעַנִ |𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 )- Origin is from the Phoenician word for "cinnamon"
editPhoenicians and others traded cinnamon ("kini" or "cini" - same word used for "China") world-wide in ancient times. This may be from which where "Canaan" originated.
"Early Modern English also used the names canel and canella, similar to the current names of cinnamon in several other European languages, which are derived from the Latin word cannella, a diminutive of canna, "tube", from the way the bark curls up as it dries.." -wiki
"Egypt imported it as far back as 2000BC, but those who reported that it had come from China had confused it with cinnamon cassia..." -wiki
"There are two centers of domestication for sugarcane: one for Saccharum officinarum ("offi-cina-rum", cina="China") by Papuans in New Guinea and another for Saccharum sinense by Austronesians in Taiwan and southern China." - wiki
The Phoenician word "kinni" (Cinnamon) was likely associated with "gi-na" , the Sumerian name for "cane", similar to that used by various cultures at that time to label the country "China", from which Cinnamon was traded along the Silk Road.
"The name "Canaanites" (כְּנָעַנִיְם kena‘anim, כְּנָעַנִי kena‘anī) is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people later known to the Ancient Greeks from c. 500 BC as Phoenicians, and after the emigration of Canaanite-speakers to Carthage (founded in the 9th century BC), was also used as a self-designation by the Punics (chanani) of North Africa during Late Antiquity. " - wiki
Lu Soci (talk) 19:41, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
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