channel

channel · noun¹

1. Latin · derived fromcanālis“groove; canal; channel”
2. Old French · derived fromchanel
3. Middle English · inherited fromchanel
4. English todaychannel

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

channel · verb²

1. Middle English · inherited fromchanelen
2. English todaychannel

From Middle English chanelen, from the noun (see above).

channel · noun³

From chainwale.

Channel · proper noun⁴

From being a channel.

Channel · proper noun⁵

Named after the Channel Islands, from where settlers once came from, in the early 18th-century. The Channel Islands are located in the English Channel, a strait (channel) separating the island of Great Britain from the coast of mainland Europe.

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