van-

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Danish

Prefix

van-

giving the sense of wrong, bad; mis-, dys-, mal-

Derived terms

Danish terms prefixed with van-

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Compare Old Norse vanr (“lacking, wanting”).

Prefix

van-

too little, short of, lacking in

Derived terms

(too little, short of):

See also

ill-, mis-, rang- (“mal-”)
of-
ó-

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix

van-

mal-, mis-

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with van-

References

“van-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix

van-

mal-, mis-

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with van-

References

“van-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Alternative forms

var- (possibly not of the same origin).

Etymology

From vanr (“what is lacking”), from Proto-Germanic *wanaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon”). See also modern English wan-.

Prefix

van-

denoting lacking, under-, un-

Derived terms

Old Norse terms prefixed with van-

Descendants

Icelandic: van-
Faroese: van-
Norwegian Nynorsk: van-
Norwegian Bokmål: van-
Swedish: van-
Danish: van-

Further reading

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “van-”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 469; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

page/469 Internet Archive]

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Cognate with English wan-.

Prefix

van-

mis-, un-, de-, without

Derived terms

See also

miss-

Anagrams

anv., nav

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