kanna
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a pot, a jug - container for water, usually with handle
- a historic measure for liquid volume, 2.617 litres (1/10 cubic foot, when the Swedish foot was 0.297 metres)
- a piston (in the cylinder of an engine or pump)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse kanna (big cup).
Origin
Old Norse
kanna
Gloss
big cup
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- jerrykannu Finnish
- kahvikannu Finnish
- kannu Finnish
- kannuittain Finnish
- kannullinen Finnish
- kannunala Finnish
- kannunvalaja Finnish
- kannunvalanta Finnish
- kannurusto Finnish
- kastelukannu Finnish
- kastikekannu Finnish
- kermakannu Finnish
- lasikannu Finnish
- maitokannu Finnish
- teekannu Finnish
- tinakannu Finnish
- vesikannu Finnish
- voitelukannu Finnish
- öljykannu Finnish
- kanne Norwegian Bokmål
- *kannǭ Proto-Germanic
- kaffe Swedish
- kaffekanna Swedish
- vatten Swedish
- vattenkanna Swedish
- kanne Norwegian Nynorsk
- kanna Old Norse
- kande Danish
- kanna Icelandic
- kanna Faroese
- canne Norman