Silbentrennung
can·kerTürkische aussprache
kängkırSynonyme
water canker,
noma,
roup,
frounce,
bane,
blight,
blister,
boil,
cancer,
corrosion,
corruption,
lesion,
rot,
scourge,
smutchAussprache
/ˈkaɴɢkər/ /ˈkæŋkɜr/
Etymologie
[ 'ka[ng]-k&r ] (noun.) 13th century. Middle English canker, cancre, Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. From Latin cancer (“a cancer”); or if a native word, compare Greek excrescence on tree, gangrene. See cancer, and compare cognate chancre. Compare also Old French cancre, (Modern French chancere), from Latin cancer.