different between keening vs kenning

English

Etymology

From Irish caoineadh.

Adjective

keening (not comparable)

1. Sharp, shrill, especially of a sound.

   The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge.

Noun

keening (countable and uncountable, plural keenings)

1. Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake
2. (by extension) An unpleasant wailing sound.

Verb

keening

1. present participle of keen

Anagrams

• kneeing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n??/
• Rhymes: -?n??
• Hyphenation: ken?ning

Etymology 1

From Middle English kenning, kening (“instruction, teaching; experience, knowledge; sight, view”), from kennen (“to make known, point out, reveal; to direct, instruct, teach; to know, perceive”) + -ing. Kennen is derived from Old English cennan (“to make known, declare”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijan? (“to make known”), the causative form of *kunnan? (“to know, be familiar with, recognize; to be able to, know how”), from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (“to know”). Compare Danish kending (“acquaintance”), and see further at ken.

Noun

kenning (plural kennings)

1. (obsolete) Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.
2. (obsolete) The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.
3. As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.

Synonyms

• (sight, view; range of vision): ken (noun)

Translations

Verb

kenning

1. present participle of ken.

Etymology 2

From ken (“to beget, bring forth”), from Middle English kennen (“to beget, conceive (offspring); to give birth to”), from Old English cennan, gecennan (“to beget (offspring); to give birth to; to bring forth, produce”); see further at etymology 1.

Noun

kenning (plural kennings)

1. (zoology, obsolete, rare) A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse kenning, from kenna (“to know; to perceive”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijan? (“to make known”); see further at etymology 1. Compare can, keen, ken.

Noun

kenning (plural kennings)

2. (poetry) A metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry (especially Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.

Translations

See also

• heiti

Etymology 4

Origin unknown.

Noun

kenning (plural kennings)

1. (Northern England) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.

Translations

References

Further reading

• kenning (poetry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse kenning.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: kending

Noun

kenning

1. (poetry) kenning

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From kenna +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c??n?i?k/

Noun

kenning f (genitive singular kenningar, nominative plural kenningar)

1. theory
2. religious doctrine, teaching
3. lesson
4. (poetry) kenning (circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English and later Icelandic poetry)

Declension

Derived terms

• láta sér að kenningu verða (“to let something be a lesson to oneself”)
• samsæriskenning (“conspiracy theory”)