canard
French
noun
Definitions
- duck of either sex
- drake male duck
- canard, hoax
- (slang) newspaper
- (slang) a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict
- (slang) a man who tries to attract women by offering them gifts
- lump of sugar dunked in coffee or brandy
- (music) off-note
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French canard (duck, male duck) inherited from Old French quanart (duck) inherited from Middle French canard (duck, male duck) inherited from Old French cane (ship, sugar cane, boat, waterbird) derived from Middle Low German kane (boat) derived from Proto-Germanic *kanô (vessel, boat) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gan-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gan-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- canard English
- canarded English
- knarr English
- anas Latin
- anas, anatem Latin
- anas, anatis Latin
- anas, anātis Latin
- anatis Latin
- canna Latin
- Kahn German
- Stocherkahn German
- canard Italian
- canard Dutch, Flemish
- brun French
- canard brun French
- canarder French
- canardier French
- canardière French
- canot French
- canoter French
- canotier French
- canoa Spanish, Castilian
- *gan- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂énh₂t- Proto-Indo-European
- canard Portuguese
- *anadz Proto-Germanic
- *kanô Proto-Germanic
- *kaną Proto-Germanic
- *knarruz Proto-Germanic
- *kēnjǭ Proto-Germanic
- kanot Swedish
- cnearr Old English
- cane Middle English
- knarre Middle English
- knǫrr Old Norse
- kæna Old Norse
- knarr Danish
- *kaňa Proto-Slavic
- cane Old French
- quanart Old French
- knörr Icelandic
- kæna Icelandic
- κανό Greek (modern)
- kano Turkish
- knørrur Faroese
- knørur Faroese
- ca nô Vietnamese
- каня Bulgarian
- canard Middle French
- cane Middle French
- kane Middle Low German
- កាណូត Central Khmer
- kanar Mauritian Creole
- knar Old Danish
- kanar Seychellois Creole
- kanna Antillean Creole
- *kanowa Taino
- kanaara Wolof