Canvas

Morpheme

Canvas

Type

free base

Denotation

sturdy cloth woven from hemp

Etymology

Middle English canevas; Anglo-Norman canevas, canevaz; Old Northern French canevas, canevach; Old French chenevas, chanevaz; Latin cannabis; Ancient Greek kánnabis

Evidence

canvas, canvasback, canvasboard, canvased, canvases, canvasful, canvasing, canvasless, canvaslike, canvasman, canvassable, canvassed, canvasses, canvassing, canvassy, canvaswork, noncanvas, recanvas

Notes

<s> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes

Doublet

Cannabis, Hemp

See Also

Cannabis, Hemp