Cannes

Borrowed from French Cannes, from earlier Canois, Canua.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What language are the older forms? Occitan/Provençal? What’s the further etymology?”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Homophone: can

Cannes

1. A city in the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France

• Nances, nances

Inherited from Old French Canua, possibly related to cane (“reed”). Or, possibly from a pre-Indo-European substrate toponym *kan ("tall, height").

• IPA^(key): /kan/

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• Homophone: cane

Cannes ?

1. Cannes (a city in France)

• Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.

• scanne, scanné

Cannes f

1. Cannes (a city in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France)