# anse
## Danish
### Etymology

From an (“on”) +‎ se (“to see”), from German ansehen (“to look at, consider”). In both languages, the participle is used as an adjective with the meaning "respectable" (see anset, angesehen). Doublet of se an.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈanˌseˀ]

### Verb

anse (imperative anse, infinitive at anse, present tense anser, past tense anså, perfect tense har anset)
* to consider, regard

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃s/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French anse, from Late Old French anse, borrowed from Latin ānsa.

#### Noun

anse f (plural anses)
* (geometry) an arc segment, from which an object is suspended
* a handle, part of an object to be hand-held when used or moved
* a small bay (body of water)

##### Related terms

* ansette
* ansière

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Hansa.

#### Noun

anse f (plural anses)
* a hansa, system of collaborating port-states

##### Related terms

* anséatique (adjective)

### Further reading

* “anse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* ânes

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈan.se/
* Rhymes: -anse
* Hyphenation: àn‧se

### Noun

anse f
* plural of ansa

### Anagrams

* sane

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

an- +‎ se; from German ansehen

### Verb

anse (imperative anse, present tense anser, passive anses or ansees, simple past anså, past participle ansett, present participle anseende)
* to consider, regard

#### Derived terms

* uansett

### References

* “anse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* anes, asen, ensa, nesa, sena

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* annse, insæ, inse

### Etymology

From an- (“un-”) +‎ asse (“easy”), or directly from Proto-Celtic *an-sādo-syos (compare Middle Welsh anhawð, modern Welsh anodd (“difficult, troublesome”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈan͈se/

### Adjective

anse (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)
* difficult, impossible
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5$^b$28
    is inse ṅduit; ní tú nod·n-ail, acht is hé not·ail.it is impossible for you sg; it is not you that nourish it, but it that nourishes you

#### Declension

io/iā-stem :
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | anse | anse | anse |
| Vocative | ansi | anse | anse |
| Accusative | anse | ansi | anse |
| Genitive | ansi | anse | ansi |
| Dative | ansu | ansi | ansu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | Feminine/neuter |
| Nominative | ansi | ansi | ansi |
| Vocative | ansi ansu* | ansi | ansi |
| Accusative | ansi ansu* | ansi | ansi |
| Genitive | anse | anse | anse |
| Dative | ansib | ansib | ansib |
| Notes | * when substantivized | * when substantivized | * when substantivized |

#### Derived terms

* ní anse

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sādo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 318

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ansae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish anse, from Middle Low German ansen. Equivalent to an- +‎ se.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

anse (present anser, preterite ansåg, supine ansett, imperative anse)
* to be of an opinion, to think, to believe, to feel
    Sven anser att Beatles var riktigt braSven thinks (is of the opinion) that the Beatles were really good
    Vi anser att den här metoden är mest lovandeWe believe (are of the opinion that) this method is the most promising

#### Conjugation
### References

* anse in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* anse in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* asen, enas, nesa, sena, snea