kenna

See also: Kenna

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

Conjugation of kenna (group v-8)
infinitive	kenna
supine	kent
participle (a7)1	kennandi	kendur
	present	past
first singular	kenni	kendi
second singular	kennir	kendi
third singular	kennir	kendi
plural	kenna	kendu
	imperative
singular	kenna!
plural	kennið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

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Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰɛnːa/
• Rhymes: -ɛnːa

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
3. (dated) to ascribe
4. (archaic, poetic) to know a person
5. to feel

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• (to instruct): leiðbeina
• (to ascribe): eigna

Derived terms

• árinni kennir illur ræðari
• kenndur
• kenning
• kennsla
• kennari

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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. (with dative) to teach someone

Descendants

• Icelandic: kenna
• Faroese: kenna
• Norn: kenna
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjenna
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: kjenne
• Elfdalian: kenna
• Westrobothnian: kjän, tjöndes
• Old Swedish: kænna
  • Swedish: känna
• Old Danish: kænnæ
  • Danish: kende
  • Scanian: kænða
• Gutnish: känne

References

• “kenna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Scots

Alternative forms

• (Orkney) kenno, kinno, kyinno, tyinno
• kennae

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 quote)

   • 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?'

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Vilamovian

Etymology

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Verb

kenna

1. to know (be acquainted or familiar with)

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Yakan

Noun

kenna

1. fish

Verb

kenna

1. to fish