kenna

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰenɐ/
• Hyphenation: ken‧na

From Middle High German kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan. Cognate with German können, English can, Dutch kan.

• kinna

kenna (past participle kenna)

1. (auxiliary) can, to be able to

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”).

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.

• auskenna
• derkenna
• kennalerna

kenna

1. illative singular of kena

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʰɛnːa/

  Rhymes: -ɛnːa

kenna (third person singular past indicative kendi, third person plural past indicative kent, supine kent)

1. to know
2. to feel
3. to teach

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

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

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

   Synonym: leiðbeina

3. (dated) to ascribe

   Synonym: eigna

4. (archaic, poetic) to know a person

   Synonym: þekkja

5. to feel

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

From Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti, from *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

kenna

1. to know (a person)
2. to feel
3. to teach someone

• 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

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

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

ken +‎ -na

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)

From Middle High German kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan.

kenna

1. to know (be acquainted or familiar with)

kenna

1. fish

kenna

1. to fish