From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer ("a cancer"). cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French.
From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above).
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