anse

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃s/

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Borrowed from Latin ansa.

anse f (plural anses)

1. (geometry) An arc segment, from which an object is suspended
2. A handle, part of an object to be hand-held when used or moved
3. A small bay (body of water)

• ansette
• ansière

Borrowed from German Hansa.

anse f (plural anses)

1. A hansa, system of collaborating port-states

• anséatique (adjective)

• ânes

• “anse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

anse f

1. plural of ansa

• sane

an- +‎ se; from German ansehen

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

1. to consider, regard

• uansett

• “anse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• annse, insæ, inse

From an- (“un-”) +‎ asse (“easy”), or directly from Proto-Celtic *an-sādo-syos (compare Middle Welsh anhawð, modern Welsh anodd (“difficult, troublesome”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈan͈se/

anse (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)

1. 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. 5b28

     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

• “1 ansae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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

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anse

1. to be of an opinion, feel, think, believe

   Sven anser att Beatles var riktigt bra.

   Sven thinks that the Beatles were really good.