cane: [14] Cane is a word of ancient ancestry. It can be traced back to Sumerian gin ‘reed’, and has come down to us via Assyrian kanū and Greek kánnā (a derivative of which, kánastron ‘wicker basket’, was the ultimate source of English canister [17]). Latin borrowed the word as canna, and broadened its meaning out from ‘reed, cane’ to ‘pipe’, which is the basis of English cannal, channel, cannon, and canyon. From Latin came Old French cane, source of the English word. => canal, canister, cannon, canyon, channel
cane (n.)
late 14c., from Old French cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Modern French canne), from Latin canna "reed, cane," from Greek kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (compare Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native Indo-European formation from a root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s.
cane (v.)
"to beat with a walking stick," 1660s, from cane (n.). Related: Caned; caning.
例文
1. In school，you knew if you misbehaved you would get the cane .
学校で規則を守らないと藤条にかかる。
2.He stopped,shifting his cane to his left hand.
彼は立ち止まって、杖を左手に移した。
3.This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.
このサトウキビは甘くてジューシーです。
4.The quiz showed up Cane 's weak points in physics.
今回の試験でケインの物理学的な弱点が分かった。
5.English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.