kenna

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʰɛnːa/

  Rhymes: -ɛnːa

kenna (third person singular past indicative kendi, third person plural past indicative kent, supine kent)

1. to know
2. to feel
3. to teach

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰɛnːa/
• Rhymes: -ɛnːa

kenna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kenndi, supine kennt)

1. 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.

2. to instruct
3. (dated) to ascribe
4. (archaic, poetic) to know a person
5. to feel

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• (to instruct): leiðbeina
• (to ascribe): eigna

• árinni kennir illur ræðari
• kenndur
• kenning
• kennsla
• kennari

From Proto-Germanic *kannijaną

kenna

1. to know (a person)
2. to feel

• kenna in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• (Orkney) kenno, kinno, kyinno, tyinno

ken +‎ -na

kenna

1. 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 quote)

kenna

1. know (be acquainted or familiar with)