# kenna
## Bavarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkʰenɐ/
* Hyphenation: ken‧na

### Etymology 1

From Middle High German kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan. Cognate with German können, English can, Dutch kan.

#### Alternative forms

* kinna

#### Verb

kenna (past participle kenna)
* (auxiliary) can, to be able to

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Middle High German kennen, from Old High German kennan, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to know”), a causative form of *kunnaną formed with the suffix *-janą. Cognate with German kennen, Dutch kennen, Scots and English ken (“to know”).

#### Verb

kenna (past participle kennt)
* (transitive) to know, to be acquainted with; to be familiar with
    Des Biachl kenn i scho. ― I know this book already.
* (transitive) to recognize, perceive
    Se häd mi fåst ned kennt mit der neichn Frisur. ― She almost didn't recognize me with my new hairstyle.

##### Derived terms

* auskenna
* derkenna
* kennalerna

## Estonian
### Adjective

kenna
* illative singular of kena

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse kenna, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃʰɛnːa/
    Rhymes: -ɛnːa

### Verb

kenna (third person singular past indicative kendi, third person plural past indicative kent, supine kent)
* to know
* to feel
* to teach

#### Conjugation
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse kenna, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈcʰɛnːa/
* Rhymes: -ɛnːa

### Verb

kenna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kenndi, supine kennt)
* to teach, to tutor
** Timothy 2:11-12 (English, Icelandic)
    Konan á að læra í kyrrþey, í allri undirgefni. Ekki leyfi ég konu að kenna eða taka sér vald yfir manninum, heldur á hún að vera kyrrlát.A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
* to instruct
    Synonym: leiðbeina
* (dated) to ascribe
    Synonym: eigna
* (archaic, poetic) to know a person
    Synonym: þekkja
* to feel

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* kenna um (“to blame”)
* kenna við (“to be named after”)
* árinni kennir illur ræðari
* kenndur
* kenning
* kennsla
* kennari

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti, from *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

### Verb

kenna
* to know (a person)
* to feel
* to teach someone [with dative]

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: kenna
* Faroese: kenna
* Norn: kenna
* Norwegian Nynorsk: kjenna
** → Norwegian Bokmål: kjenne
* Elfdalian: kenna
* Old Swedish: kænna
** Swedish: känna
* Old Danish: kænnæ
** Danish: kende
** Scanian: kænða
* Gutnish: känne

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kenna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* (Orkney) kenno, kinno, kyinno, tyinno
* kennae

### Etymology

ken +‎ -na

### Contraction

kenna
* do not know
** 1822, John Galt, chapter XCIX, in Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk:I kenna how it was, that at the time I didna experience such a sorrow as I should have felt.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:'Stop!' says he, — 'stop, Laird Heriotside! I kenna what your errand is, but it is to no holy purpose that ye're out on Beltane E'en. D' ye no hear the warring o' the waters?'(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From Middle High German kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan.

### Verb

kenna
* to know (be acquainted or familiar with)

## Yakan
### Noun

kenna
* fish

### Verb

kenna
* to fish