Also kanyon. [A phonetic spelling of Sp. cañon, designed to represent the proper spoken word: cf. CANION.] = CAÑON.
1861. R. Burton, City of Saints, 117, note. The Spanish cañon—Americanised to kanyon—signifies a … ravine of peculiar form, common in this part of America.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., iii. 39. Traversed a kanyon or ravine.
1878. Black, Green Past., xiii. 103. To explore the neighbouring canyons.
