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kenna

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Bavarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰenɐ/
  • Hyphenation: ken‧na

Etymology 1

    From Middle High German kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan. Cognate with German können, English can, Dutch kan.

    Alternative forms

    Verb

    kenna (past participle kenna)

    1. (auxiliary) can, to be able to
    Conjugation
    More information infinitive, past participle ...

    Etymology 2

      From Middle High German kennen, from Old High German kennan, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to know”), a causative form of *kunnaną formed with the suffix *-janą. Cognate with German kennen, Dutch kennen, Scots and English ken (“to know”).

      Verb

      kenna (past participle kennt)

      1. (transitive) to know, to be acquainted with; to be familiar with
        Des Biachl kenn i scho. ― I know this book already.
      2. (transitive) to recognize, perceive
        Se häd mi fåst ned kennt mit der neichn Frisur. ― She almost didn't recognize me with my new hairstyle.
      Conjugation
      More information infinitive, past participle ...
      Derived terms
      • auskenna
      • derkenna
      • kennalerna
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      Estonian

      Adjective

      kenna

      1. illative singular of kena

      Faroese

      Etymology

      From Old Norse kenna, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃʰɛnːa/
        Rhymes: -ɛnːa

      Verb

      kenna (third person singular past indicative kendi, third person plural past indicative kent, supine kent)

      1. to know
      2. to feel
      3. to teach

      Conjugation

      More information infinitive, supine ...

      1Only the past participle being declined.

      Icelandic

      Etymology

      From Old Norse kenna, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną.

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      kenna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kenndi, supine kennt)

      1. to teach, to tutor
        • Timothy 2:11-12 (English, Icelandic)
          Konan á að læra í kyrrþey, í allri undirgefni. Ekki leyfi ég konu að kenna eða taka sér vald yfir manninum, heldur á hún að vera kyrrlát.
          A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
      2. to instruct
        Synonym: leiðbeina
      3. (dated) to ascribe
        Synonym: eigna
      4. (archaic, poetic) to know a person
        Synonym: þekkja
      5. to feel

      Conjugation

      This verb needs an inflection-table template.

      Derived terms

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      Old Norse

      Etymology

      From Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti, from *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

      Verb

      kenna

      1. to know (a person)
      2. to feel
      3. to teach someone [with dative]

      Conjugation

      More information infinitive, present participle ...
      More information infinitive, present participle ...

      Descendants

      • Icelandic: kenna
      • Faroese: kenna
      • Norn: kenna
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjenna
      • Elfdalian: kenna
      • Old Swedish: kænna
      • Old Danish: kænnæ
        • Danish: kende
        • Scanian: kænða
      • Gutnish: känne

      Further reading

      • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “kenna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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      Scots

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      ken +‎ -na

      Contraction

      kenna

      1. do not know
        • 1822, John Galt, chapter XCIX, in Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk:
          I kenna how it was, that at the time I didna experience such a sorrow as I should have felt.
          (please add an English translation of this quotation)
        • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
          'Stop!' says he, — 'stop, Laird Heriotside! I kenna what your errand is, but it is to no holy purpose that ye're out on Beltane E'en. D' ye no hear the warring o' the waters?'
          (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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      Vilamovian

      Etymology

      From Middle High German kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan.

      Verb

      kenna

      1. to know (be acquainted or familiar with)

      Yakan

      Noun

      kenna

      1. fish

      Verb

      kenna

      1. to fish

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