kunna
Old Swedish
verb
Definitions
- can, to be able
- to know
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse kunna (know) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (know, know how, recognize, be able, be familiar with).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kunnaną
Gloss
know, know how, recognize, be able, be familiar with
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
知
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *ǵen- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- kunne Norwegian Bokmål
- *kannō Proto-Germanic
- *kunnaną Proto-Germanic
- *kunþaz Proto-Germanic
- kunna Swedish
- kunne Norwegian Nynorsk
- can(n), cann Old English
- cunnan Old English
- cūþ Old English
- kunna Old Norse
- kunnigr Old Norse
- kunnleikr Old Norse
- kunne Danish
- kunna Icelandic
- kunnan Old High German
- kunna Faroese
- 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *kunnan gmw-pro
- cunnan Old Dutch
- kunnan Old Saxon
- kunna Old Frisian