Etymology

canikin

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Middle Dutch kanneken
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The story

  1. Middle Dutch · borrowed fromkanneken
  2. English todaycanikin

From Middle Dutch kanneken, cannekijn (“a little can”). By surface analysis, can + -ikin.

Words from the same roots

Middle Dutchkanneken all →

canakin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.