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To me Kanin sounds like Canine (dogs, wolves, foxes and the like) but I searched, and it comes from ancient French "Conin", and what a surprise! in English for Rabbit, we can use Coney as well!
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Awesome, thanks! I was just thinking of doing the research for this myself, but you beat me to it. It makes so much more sense now.
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you are also studying Spanish! en español, "rabbit" es "conejo", en catalán (Barcelona) es "cunill".
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Haha... I actually haven't touched Spanish on here in over a year, but I did pick some up while I was in Peru last summer. Thanks for the little bit of romance etymology.
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And in Italian is "coniglio". So two words different as kanin and coniglio are actually linked. :)
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Ancient France or possibly Gaul which has a similar Galic relation to Irish. Coinín is rabbit in Irish.
So that explains why Sam called the rabbits that in The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King...
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I'm from Veneto and in my dialect we call the rabit "conejo" or "cunel" realy similar that in catalan! :)
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I love danish! The german word for rabbit is "Kaninchen", -chen is a diminutive form, so literaly it means "little kanin", but "Kanin" doesn't exist in german. And now I can use Kanin!
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A little mnemonic image for italian people:
https://orig00.deviantart.net/1431/f/2011/012/b/2/the_were_rabbit_by_caustic_grip-d1ghjxt.jpg
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On fast mode, this definitely sounds like she is saying "den lille kaninen spiser". If this is incorrect, the audio needs to be looked at.
