canel
See also: canêl, canél, and canël
Middle English
Alternative forms
- canell, kanel, canelle, canele, canylle
Etymology
From Old French canele, from Medieval Latin cannella, a diminutive of canna; equivalent to cane + -el (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkanɛl(ə)/, /kaˈnɛːl(ə)/
Noun
canel (uncountable)
- cinnamon (The bark of trees of certain species of the genus Cinnamomum)
- (rare) The cinnamon tree; the trees which produce cinnamon.
Usage notes
This term often referred to a lower quality of cinnamon than synamome.
Descendants
- Scots: cannel
- → Irish: cainéal (“cinnamon”)
References
- “canē̆l, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-01.
Old French
Alternative forms
- caneil, canal
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin canalis. Doublet of chanel.
Noun
canel m (oblique plural caneaus or caneax or caniaus or caniax or canels, nominative singular caneaus or caneax or caniaus or caniax or canels, nominative plural canel)
- canal (artificial watercourse)
Descendants
- French: canal
- → Persian: کانال (kânâl)
- → Romanian: canal
- → Turkish: kanal
- Norman: canel
- → Irish: canáil
- → Middle Dutch: canel, canael
- Dutch: kanaal
- Afrikaans: kanaal
- → Caribbean Hindustani: kandál
- → Caribbean Javanese: kanal
- → Indonesian: kanal
- → Sranan Tongo: kanari
- → West Frisian: kanaal
- Limburgish: kenaal
- Dutch: kanaal
- → Middle English: canal, canale, cannale
- English: canal
- → Scottish Gaelic: canàl
- Scots: canaul
- English: canal
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (canal, supplement)