kenna

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

• kinna

Verb

kenna (past participle kenna)

1. (auxiliary) can, to be able to

Conjugation

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

Derived terms

• auskenna
• derkenna
• kennalerna

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

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
• (to know): þekkja

Derived terms

• kenna um (“to blame”)
• kenna við (“to be named after”)
• árinni kennir illur ræðari
• kenndur
• kenning
• kennsla
• kennari

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

Conjugation

Descendants

• Icelandic: kenna
• Faroese: kenna
• Norn: kenna
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjenna
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: kjenne
• Elfdalian: kenna
• 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

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 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)

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