cany

From cane +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪni/

cany (comparative more cany, superlative most cany)

1. Of or relating to cane (the plant) or canes.
2. Abounding with canes.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Sericana , where Chineses drive
     With sails and wind their cany waggons light

• “cany”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• -ancy, cyan, cyan-

• canyt (before a vowel)

Univerbation of can (“since, because”) +‎ ny (“not”)

• IPA^(key): /kaˈni/^[1]

cany (triggers mixed mutation)

1. since…not, because…not

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:cany.

• canis

• Evans, D. Simon (1964), A Grammar of Middle Welsh (Medieval and Modern Welsh Series; supplementary volume), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 261, page 234