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ganà.
to sing to someone-dat about something-acc
ganàm. something like singing (humorously used to refer to very bad singing)
Etymology
< NLem, LMLem, MLem gan‑a
< OLem kan‑
< PLem *kan‑, Narten present of
< PIE *kan‑
Funnily, the native word for singing survived Ramo’s attempt in the Tlöngö̀l to replace it with its doublet khnà., a Beskidic loanword, while the latter came to mean ‘shout’.
Cognates
Lat canō ‘sing’, Ir can ‘sing’