# hann
## Akan
### Noun

hann
* light
    Na Onyankopɔn kaa sɛ: ɛnyɛ hann! Na ɛyɛɛ hann. ― And God said, let there be light! And there was light.

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

* han (Limburgan Ripuarian)

### Etymology

From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /han/

### Verb

hann (third-person singular present hät or hat, past tense hatt, past participle jehatt or gehatt)
* (most dialects) to have

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin.

### Pronunciation

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### Pronoun

hann
* he

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hanː/, [(h)änː]
    Rhymes: -anː
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### Pronoun

hann
* (personal pronoun): he
    Hann er gamall.He is old.
    Hann drap hann.He killed him.
* (personal pronoun): accusative of hann: him
    Hann drap hann.He killed him.
    Hættu þessu! Ég elska hann!Stop it! I love him!

#### Declension

Icelandic personal pronouns :
| singular | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter |
| nominative | ég, eg, ek | þú | hann | hún, hon, hón | það, þat |
| accusative | mig, mik | þig, þik | hann | hana | það, þat |
| dative | mér | þér | honum, hánum | henni | því |
| genitive | mín | þín | hans | hennar | þess |
| plural | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter |
| nominative | við | þið, þit | þeir | þær | þau |
| accusative | okkur | ykkur | þá | þær | þau |
| dative | okkur | ykkur | þeim | þeim | þeim |
| genitive | okkar | ykkar | þeirra | þeirra | þeirra |

#### Derived terms

* eins og hann frekast gat

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

hann m (definite singular hannen, indefinite plural hanner, definite plural hannene)
* (zoology) a male

#### Antonyms

* hunn

#### Derived terms

* hannkatt

### References

* “hann” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* hanne

### Etymology

From han (“he”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /han/

### Noun

hann m (definite singular hannen, indefinite plural hannar, definite plural hannane)
* male
    Hjå mange artar har hannar og hoer ulik storleik.The males and females of many species have different sizes.

#### Antonyms

* ho, hoe

#### Derived terms

* hannkatt

### References

* “hann” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* ᚼᛅᚾ (han), ᛅᚾ (an), ᚼᚬᚾ (hąn), ᚬᚾ (ąn) — Runic form, nominative/accusative
* ᛅᚾᚢᛘ (anum), ᚬᚾᚢᛘ (ąnum) — Runic form, dative
* ᚼᛅᚾᛋ (hans), ᛅᚾᛋ (ans), ᚼᚬᚾᛋ (hąns), ᚭᚾᛋ (ąns) — Runic form, genitive

### Etymology

From earlier *hánn, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a compound of *he- (corresponding to English he) and *ānaʀ (from Proto-Germanic *jainaz, corresponding to Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains)) or even directly from *ānaʀ with h- added due to influence from the demonstrative pronoun hinn, or else perhaps directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European and answering to Ancient Greek κεῖνος (keînos).
The long vowel is preserved in the masculine dative hǫ́num and feminine nominative hǫ́n, both affected by u-umlaut (Proto-Norse *hānumʀ, *hānu).

### Pronoun

hann
* he (third-person nominative singular masculine personal pronoun)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: hann
* Faroese: hann
* Norwegian Nynorsk: han
** Russenorsk: han
* Norwegian Bokmål: han
* Elfdalian: an
* Old Swedish: han
** Swedish: han
* Danish: han (hand)
* Old Gutnish: hann

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hann”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

## Rhine Franconian
### Alternative forms

* hawwe (Vorderpfälzisch)
* hunn (northern Palatine)

### Etymology

From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

### Verb

hann (third-person singular present hadd)
* (western Palatine) to have

#### Descendants

* Frankfurterisch: [havə]; [hɑvə], [hɔvə] (older)
* Palatine German: hann, hawwe, hunn
* Pennsylvania German: hawwe
* Upper Hessian: hu, hunn

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: han

### Verb

hann
* past indicative of hinna

#### Usage notes

A homophone of han (“he”).