hann

Akan

Noun

hann

1. light

   Na Onyankopɔn kaa sɛ: ɛnyɛ hann! Na ɛyɛɛ hann. ― And God said, let there be light! And there was light.

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• han (Limburgan Ripuarian)

Etymology

From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/

Verb

hann (third-person singular present hät or hat, past tense hatt, past participle jehatt or gehatt)

1. (most dialects) to have

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

hann

1. he

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (stressed) IPA^(key): /ˈhanː/

  Rhymes: -anː

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• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /an(ː)/

Pronoun

hann

1. (personal pronoun): he

   Hann er gamall.

   He is old.

   Hann drap hann.

   He killed him.

2. (personal pronoun): accusative singular form of the word hann (meaning "he") meaning "him".

   Hann drap hann.

   He killed him.

   Hættu þessu! Ég elska hann!

   Stop it! I love him!

Declension

Derived terms

• eins og hann frekast gat

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hann m (definite singular hannen, indefinite plural hanner, definite plural hannene)

1. (zoology) a male

Antonyms

• hunn

Derived terms

• hannkatt

References

• “hann” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hanne

Etymology

From han (“he”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/

Noun

hann m (definite singular hannen, indefinite plural hannar, definite plural hannane)

1. male

   Hjå mange artar har hannar og hoer ulik storleik.

   The males and females of many species have different sizes.

Antonyms

• ho, hoe

Derived terms

• hannkatt

References

• “hann” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• ᚼᛅᚾ (han), ᛅᚾ (an), ᚼᚬᚾ (hąn), ᚬᚾ (ąn) — Runic form, nominative/accusative
• ᛅᚾᚢᛘ (anum), ᚬᚾᚢᛘ (ąnum) — Runic form, dative
• ᚼᛅᚾᛋ (hans), ᛅᚾᛋ (ans), ᚼᚬᚾᛋ (hąns), ᚭᚾᛋ (ąns) — Runic form, genitive

Etymology

From earlier *hánn, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a compound of *he- (corresponding to English he) and *ānaʀ (from Proto-Germanic *jainaz, corresponding to Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains)) or even directly from *ānaʀ with h- added due to influence from the demonstrative pronoun hinn, or else perhaps directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European and answering to Ancient Greek κεῖνος (keînos).

The long vowel is preserved in the masculine dative hǫ́num and feminine nominative hǫ́n, both affected by u-umlaut (Proto-Norse *hānumʀ, *hānu).

Pronoun

hann

1. he (third-person nominative singular masculine personal pronoun)

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: hann
• Faroese: hann
• Norwegian Nynorsk: han
  • Russenorsk: han
• Norwegian Bokmål: han
• Elfdalian: an
• Old Swedish: han
  • Swedish: han
• Danish: han (hand)
• Old Gutnish: hann

References

• “hann”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

Rhine Franconian

Alternative forms

• hawwe (Vorderpfälzisch)
• hunn (northern Palatine)

Etymology

From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

Verb

hann (third-person singular present hadd)

1. (western Palatine) to have

Swedish

Pronunciation

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• Homophone: han

Verb

hann

1. past indicative of hinna

Usage notes

A homophone of han (“he”).