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Etymology
From Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan.
Pronunciation
Verb
ee-kent
- to be known
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.- for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114