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Etymology of cannabis
The plant name
Cannabis
is from
Greek
(), via
Latin
, originally a
Scythian
or
Thracian
word, also loaned into
Persian
as . English
hemp
(
Old English
) may be an early loan (predating
Grimm's Law
) from the same Scythian source.
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