German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a maker
of jugs, from an agent derivative of Middle High or Middle Low German
kanne ‘jug’, ‘tankard’, German Kanne (see Kann).
German : occupational name for a maker of gutters and drainage
pipes, Middle High German kaner. Compare Kandler.
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