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van-

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "van"

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Compare Old Norse vanr (“lacking, wanting”).

Prefix

van-

  1. giving the sense of wrong, bad; mis-, dys-, mal-

Derived terms

Danish terms prefixed with van-
vanfør
vanhellige
vanrøgt
vanrøgte
vansire
vanskabt
vantrives
vantrivsel
vantro
vanvid
vanvittig
vanære

References

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Compare Old Norse vanr (“lacking, wanting”).

Prefix

van-

  1. too little, short of, lacking in

Derived terms

too little, short of

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix

van-

  1. mal-, mis-

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with van-
vanhellige
vanstyre
vanære

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix

van-

  1. mal-, mis-

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with van-
vankunne
vanstyre
vantrivast
vantru
vanære

References

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • var- (possibly not of the same origin).

Etymology

From vanr (“what is lacking”), from Proto-Germanic *wanaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon”). See also modern English wan-.

Prefix

van-

  1. denoting lacking, under-, un-

Derived terms

Old Norse terms prefixed with van-
vanbúinn
vanmegin
vansénn
vantempran

Descendants

  • Icelandic: van-
  • Faroese: van-
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: van-
  • Norwegian Bokmål: van-
  • Swedish: van-
  • Danish: van-

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “van-”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 469; also available at the Internet Archive
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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Cognate with English wan-.

Prefix

van-

  1. mis-, un-, de-, without (also implying something bad)

Derived terms

Swedish terms prefixed with van-
vanart
vanartad
vandöd
vanför
vanföreställning
vanheder
vanhedra
vanhelga
vanmakt
vanmäktig
vanpryda
vanrykte
vansinne
vansinnig
vanskapt
vansköta
vanställa
vantolka
vantrivas
vantrivsel
vantrogen
vanvett
vanvård
vanvårda
vanvörda
vanära

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References

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