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It's amazing how many names for things come from a different era. Even "movies" is from "moving pictures" which is how they described a new thing in terms of an old familiar thing, pictures. Also "film" comes from a thin coating of chemical gel on glass photographic plates, which evolved to mean the coating plus the plastic once photography moved from glass plates to flexible plastic rolls. Also, why do we "shoot" movies?
One of the most prolific is canna, which is Latin for reed, tube, or pipe. Turns out you can get a LOT of mileage from that meaning:
Cane: Referring to the plant, walking stick, or slender rod.
Canal: An artificial waterway, from the Latin canalis (pipe/groove).
Channel: A conduit or passage.
Cannon: From Italian cannone, meaning "large tube".
Canon: A rule or standard (originally from a reed used as a measuring stick).
Cannibal: Historically connected to this root through a complex path involving "Carib".
Cannister / Canister: A container, often cylindrical.
Cannula: A small tube for insertion into the body.
Canyon: Derived via Spanish cañón (tube/pipe).
They have altered the canna, pray they do not alter it any further.