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ken
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English kennen (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget; to develop (as a fetus), hatch out (of eggs); to sustain, nourish, nurture”), from Old English cennan (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget”), from Proto-Germanic *kanjan?.
Verb
ken (third-person singular simple present kens, present participle kenning, simple past and past participle kenned)
- (obsolete) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
- 1524, Margaret Roper (translator), A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster, Desiderius Erasmus
- To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives.
- 1524, Margaret Roper (translator), A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster, Desiderius Erasmus
Etymology 2
Northern and Scottish dialects from Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan (“make known, declare, acknowledge”) originally “to make known”, causative of cunnan (“to become acquainted with, to know”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijan?, causative of *kunnan? (“be able”), from which comes the verb can. Cognate with West Frisian kenne (“to know; recognise”), Dutch kennen (“to know”), German kennen (“to know, be acquainted with someone/something”), Norwegian Bokmål kjenne, Norwegian Nynorsk kjenna, Old Norse kenna (“to know, perceive”), Swedish känna (“to know, feel”). See also: can, con.
The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning.
Verb
ken (third-person singular simple present kens, present participle kenning, simple past and past participle kenned or kent)
- (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.
- (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ken.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
ken (uncountable)
- Knowledge, perception, or sight.
- 1957, United States Congressional serial set - Issue 11976:
- These people, these 20 or 25, were in my ken. Senator Jenner. In his what? Mr. Greenglass. My ken, my line of vision, my knowledge.
- 1977, Roulhac Toledano, Sally Kittredge Evans, The Esplanade Ridge:
- On this occasion, I wrote to them: "Two more modest and deserving people than you are not in our ken; and it is but fitting that you receive this, preservation's most prestigious prize, for your selfless devotion to the cause through the years.
- 1999, Catherine Z. Elgin, Considered Judgment:
- Since nothing in our ken differentiates knowledge from luck, something beyond our ken is introduced to do so. But the conviction that we know something is small comfort when coupled with the realization that we cannot tell what.
- 2012, Keith McCarthy, Nor All Your Tears:
- I couldn't see the funny side myself, but Tristan could; after a while he could hardly control his merriment, in fact, so that he collapsed back on the bed, continuing to chortle, more of his rather unpleasant teeth making an unwelcome appearance in my ken.
- 1957, United States Congressional serial set - Issue 11976:
- (nautical) Range of sight.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 59-60:
- At once as far as Angels kenn he views
- The dismal Situation waste and wilde ...
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 59-60:
Usage notes
In common usage a fossil word, found only in phrases such as beyond one’s ken and swim into one's ken.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ken.
Coordinate terms
- (nautical range of sight): offing
Translations
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [1]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “ken”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Etymology 3
Perhaps from kennel.
Noun
ken (plural kens)
- (slang, Britain, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Japanese ?
Noun
ken (plural kens or ken)
- A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus
Anagrams
- nek
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ken/
Pronoun
ken
- they, them
See also
Determiner
ken
- their
See also
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[5], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
Etymology 1
From Dutch kin, from Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *?énus.
Noun
ken (plural kenne)
- chin
Alternative forms
- kin
Etymology 2
From Dutch kennen.
Verb
ken (present ken, present participle kennende, past participle geken)
- (transitive) To know (a person, a thing), be acquainted with
Derived terms
- te kenne
Basque
Noun
ken
- genitive plural of ka
Breton
Adverb
ken
- exclamative adverb
- equality adverb
- negative adverb
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- khemmen, khèmman
Etymology
From Middle High German komen, from Old High German kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kweman?. Cognate with German kommen, Dutch komen, English come, Icelandic koma, Gothic ???????????????????? (qiman).
Verb
ken
- (Tredici Comuni) to come
References
- “ken” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Dupaningan Agta
Noun
ken
- skirt
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?n
- IPA(key): /k?n/
Verb
ken
- first-person singular present indicative of kennen
- imperative of kennen
Anagrams
- nek, enk
Finnish
(index ke)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ken, from Proto-Uralic *ke. Cognate with Hungarian ki and Ter Sami kie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ken/, [?ke?n]
- Rhymes: -en
- Syllabification: ken
Pronoun
ken
- (interrogative, dated) who; (when followed by a modifier in elative case, -sta/-stä) which one (of + a noun referring to people).
- (indefinite, dated) whoever.
Usage notes
- Ken is old-fashioned or poetic in tone (or dialectal), yet its inflected forms are common and standard. See the usage notes under kuka.
Inflection
- See kuka.
Synonyms
- (who): kuka
- (whoever): kuka tahansa
French
Etymology
Clipping of kéni, the verlan form of niquer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
Verb
ken
- (vulgar, slang) Synonym of niquer
Usage notes
Only used as infinitive or past participle.
Hungarian
Etymology
Of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?n]
- Rhymes: -?n
Verb
ken
- (transitive) to smear
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
References
Further reading
- ken in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
- Hyphenation: kèn
Noun
ken
- honorific for male and female children.
Etymology 2
From Japanese ? (??, ken, “fist”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
- Hyphenation: kèn
Noun
ken
- fist.
Further reading
- “ken” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ken, from Proto-Uralic *ke. Cognates include Veps ken and Karelian ken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ken/
Pronoun
ken
- who?
- who, whom, that
Inflection
References
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?[6]
Japanese
Romanization
ken
- R?maji transcription of ??
- R?maji transcription of ??
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese quem.
Pronoun
ken
- who
Karelian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ken, from Proto-Uralic *ke. Cognates include Finnish ken and Ingrian ken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ken/
Pronoun
ken
- who?
Declension
References
- P. M. Zaykov (1999) ?????????? ??????????? ????? (???????? ? ??????????) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], ?ISBN, page 60
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ken, from Proto-Uralic *ke. Cognates include Karelian ken and Ingrian ken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ken/
- Hyphenation: ken
Pronoun
ken
- who?
References
- N. Gilojeva; S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, ?ISBN, page 10
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Ven?alaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, ?ISBN, page 100
Ladino
Etymology
From Latin qu?m, accusative of qui.
Pronoun
ken (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ?????)
- who, whom
- whoever, whomever
Mandarin
Romanization
ken
- Nonstandard spelling of kén.
- Nonstandard spelling of k?n.
- Nonstandard spelling of kèn.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
ken ?
- laugh
- smile
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunj?, from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?- (“to give birth”). Cognates include Old English cynn, Old Saxon kunni and Old Dutch cunni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ken/
Noun
ken n
- kindred, kin
Descendants
- North Frisian: kinne, kenne
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN
Papiamentu
Alternative forms
- kende (synonym)
Etymology
From Portuguese quem and Spanish quien and Kabuverdianu ken.
Pronoun
ken
- who
Pennsylvania German
Alternative forms
- kee
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
Etymology
Compare German kein, Dutch geen.
Article
ken
- no
Declension
Scots
Etymology
From Old English cennan (“make known, declare, acknowledge”), originally "make to know", causative of cunnan (“to become acquainted with, to know”); from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijan?.
Noun
ken (uncountable)
- knowledge or perception
Verb
ken (third-person singular present kens, present participle kennin, past kent, past participle kent)
- (transitive) To know, perceive or understand.
- Do ye ken John Peel with his coat so gay? - 19th century Cumbrian ballad
- Dae ye ken Ken kens Ken?
- Do you know Ken knows Ken?"
Southern Sierra Miwok
Noun
ken
- no
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English can, from Middle English can, from Old English cann, from Proto-West Germanic *kann.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ken/
Verb
ken
- (auxiliary) to be able to
- (auxiliary) to may, to be allowed
- (auxiliary) Expresses a wish.; may...
Further reading
- John W. M. Verhaar (1995) , chapter 10, in Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: An experiment in corpus linguistics, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i press, ?ISBN, page 144
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ken.
Pronoun
ken (genitive kenen, partitive keda)
- who (interrogative)
Inflection
Derived terms
- ken-ni
- ken-se
- koje-ken
- niken
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [k?n??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [k????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [k????]
Adjective
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Yola
Alternative forms
- kin
Etymology
From Middle English ken.
Noun
ken
- regard, liking
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
Zou
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ken?/
Noun
ken
- wheel
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41
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