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Kan  ,, ‘rabbit,’ of an earlier  ; it is based upon  cuniculus, which passed into  in various forms;  küniclîn (accented on the first syllable), evidently germanised, also künolt, künlîn, külle. The form is based upon a  variant, caniculus; the form with a is properly restricted to North and Middle Germany, while ü  is current in the South. coning, coney, from  connin ( coniglio).    (1.),, ‘spider’ , from the  kanker (rare),. The derivation of the word from cancer, ‘crab’, is, for no other reason than the meaning, impossible. It seems to be based upon an  ‘to weave, spin.’ This is indicated by the  kǫngulváfa, kǫngurváfa, ‘spider’;  gongelwœ̂fre, ‘spider,’ must also be based upon a similar word; its apparent meaning, ‘the insect that weaves as it goes along,’ is probably due to a popular corruption of the obscure first component. We should thus get a  stem kang, ‘to spin,’ which in its graded form appears in. his stem has been preserved in the non- languages only in a loan-word;   kangas, ‘web’ ( *kaggs).

 (2.),, ‘canker,’ from chanchar, cancur;   cancer,  canker. Probably chanchur is a real  word from an unpermutated gongro-;   γόγγρος, ‘an excrescence on trees,’ γάγγραινα, ‘gangrene.’ Perhaps a genuinely  term has been blended with a foreign word ( cancer,  chancre).   ,, ‘can, tankard, jug,’ from the  kanne,  channa, ;   canne,  can;  kanna,  *kannô. The word cannot have been borrowed from  cantharus ( κάνθαρος); an assumed corruption of kantarum,   to a  kannô, is improbable. The derivation of, from canna, ‘cane,’ is opposed by the meaning of the word. Since  is based upon a  root ka-, the latter can hardly be adduced in explanation of, although the meaning of both might be deduced from a  sense ‘hollowed wood,’ If we assume, as is quite possible, a  *kaznô, ‘can,’ another etymology presents itself,  kas,  ker and  char, ‘vessel,’ would be cognate, and -nô-, a suffix of the same root. If we compare, however, with  the  and  variant, which is based upon  chanta, we obtain kan- as the root. The word passed into  (  canette, ‘small can,’  to  cannetta,  of  canna).   ,, ‘sharp edge, border, margin, fine lace,’ only, from  kante, ‘edge, corner’; the latter, like  cant, ‘corner, edge,’ which is also unknown to the earlier periods of the language, is derived from  cant, ‘corner,’ which, with  canto, is said to be based finally on  κάνθος, ‘felloe of a wheel.’   ,, ‘leather whip,’ from kančuch,  kańczuk. The word is of Turk. origin (Turk. kamčẹ, ‘whip’). .   ,, ‘pulpit,’ from kanzel,  cancella, chanzella, ,  ‘the place set apart for the priests,’ then ‘pulpit’; from the   cancellus, cancelli, ‘grating,’ cancelli altaris, ‘the grating enclosing the altar, the part separated, rom the nave of the church by a grating’; in  generally ‘any part surrounded by a parapet, especially an oriental flat roof.’ “Qui vero Epistolas missas recitare volebant populo in regione Palæstinæ antiquitus, ascendebant super tectum et de cancellis recitabant et inde inolevit usus ut qui litteras principibus missas habent exponere Cancellarii usitato nomine dicantur” (du Cange). Hence. From the same source, cancellus, is derived  chancel, taken from, the meaning of which forms the starting-point for the development of the signification of the  word.   ,, ‘capon,’ from the  kappûn; borrowed after the era of the substitution of consonants from  cappônem ( capo,  to  κἀπων);   cappone,  chapon (whence also  kopun). Even in the period capûn, ‘gallinaceus,’ is found derived from the same source ( capon);   kapoen. From the  cappo is derived  kappe, and even  chappo. For another term see under.    (1.),, ‘chapel, orchestra,’ an early loan-word, which always remained, however, under the influence of capella, on which it is based, for while numerous other words borrowed from  have their accent changed according to the<section end="Kapelle1" />