different between ken vs knaa

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)

1. (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.

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)

1. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To know, perceive or understand.
2. (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)

1. 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.
2. (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 ...

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)

1. (slang, Britain, obsolete, thieves' cant) A house, especially a den of thieves.

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Japanese ?

Noun

ken (plural kens or ken)

1. A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus

Anagrams

• nek

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ken/

Pronoun

ken

1. they, them

See also

Determiner

ken

1. 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)

1. chin

Alternative forms

• kin

Etymology 2

From Dutch kennen.

Verb

ken (present ken, present participle kennende, past participle geken)

1. (transitive) To know (a person, a thing), be acquainted with

Derived terms

• te kenne

Basque

Noun

ken

1. genitive plural of ka

Breton

Adverb

ken

1. exclamative adverb

2. equality adverb

3. 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

1. (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

1. skirt

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n
• IPA^(key): /k?n/

Verb

ken

1. first-person singular present indicative of kennen
2. 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

1. (interrogative, dated) who; (when followed by a modifier in elative case, -sta/-stä) which one (of + a noun referring to people).
2. (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

1. (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

1. (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

1. honorific for male and female children.

Etymology 2

From Japanese ? (??, ken, “fist”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n/
• Hyphenation: kèn

Noun

ken

1. 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

1. who?

2. who, whom, that

Inflection

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[6]

Japanese

Romanization

ken

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese quem.

Pronoun

ken

1. who

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ken, from Proto-Uralic *ke. Cognates include Finnish ken and Ingrian ken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ken/

Pronoun

ken

1. 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

1. 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 ?????)

1. who, whom
2. whoever, whomever

Mandarin

Romanization

ken

1. Nonstandard spelling of kén.
2. Nonstandard spelling of k?n.
3. 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 ?

1. laugh
2. 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

1. 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

1. who

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

• kee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n/

Etymology

Compare German kein, Dutch geen.

Article

ken

1. 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)

1. knowledge or perception

Verb

ken (third-person singular present kens, present participle kennin, past kent, past participle kent)

1. (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

1. 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

1. (auxiliary) to be able to
2. (auxiliary) to may, to be allowed
3. (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)

1. 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

ken

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Verb

ken

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Yola

Alternative forms

• kin

Etymology

From Middle English ken.

Noun

ken

1. 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

1. wheel

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41

English

Alternative forms

• naa

Etymology

From Old English cnawan.

Verb

knaa

1. (Tyneside) To know

   A' divint knaa, man!

Related terms

• ken (Geordie)
• know (Standard English)

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]

Anagrams

• Akan, Kana, kana, naka

Garo

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-na

Verb

knaa

1. to hear