tjene
Danish
[ˈtɕɛːnə]
verb
Definitions
- to serve a master, a country, a purpose
- to earn money
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse þjóna (serve, attend) inherited from Proto-Germanic *þewanōną (serve), *þewaz (slave, servant, servat).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*þewaz
Gloss
slave, servant, servat
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Diener German
- Messdiener German
- andienen German
- bedienen German
- dienen German
- dienlich German
- verdienen German
- *tekwos Proto-Indo-European
- *tekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- tjene Norwegian Bokmål
- *wulþuz Proto-Germanic
- *þewanōną Proto-Germanic
- *þewaz Proto-Germanic
- tena Norwegian Nynorsk
- tene Norwegian Nynorsk
- þeow Old English
- þēow Old English
- þjóna Old Norse
- þjónan Old Norse
- formålstjenlig Danish
- tjener Danish
- tjenlig Danish
- þjóna Icelandic
- þjónn Icelandic
- dionōn Old High German
- thionōn Old High German
- 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍃 Gothic
- thienon Old Dutch
- þiǣna Old Swedish