unna
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- to grant, allow (someone else a benefit, without begrudging this)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish unna inherited from Old Norse unna (love) inherited from Proto-Germanic *unnaną (grant, bestow, thank).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*unnaną
Gloss
grant, bestow, thank
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Humphrey English
- *h₃neh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *ān- Proto-Indo-European
- unne Norwegian Bokmål
- *anstiz Proto-Germanic
- *unnaną Proto-Germanic
- geunnan Old English
- unnan Old English
- unna Old Norse
- misunde Danish
- unde Danish
- unna Icelandic
- giunnan Old High German
- unna Faroese
- *unnan Old Dutch
- unnan Old Saxon
- unna Old Swedish
- Unn Norwegian