• IPA^(key): /ˈken.nɑn/

FromProto-West Germanic*kannijan, fromProto-Germanic*kannijaną, causative form of*kunnaną(“to know”).

Cognate withOld Saxonkennian (Dutchkennen),Old Frisiankenna,Old High Germanchennan (Germankennen),Old Norsekenna (Danishkende, spelling before the writing reform of 1948:kjende),Gothic𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽(kannjan,“to declare”).

cennan

1. to make known,declare
   • c. 992,Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"

     Þeos towritennys wearð aræred fram ðam ealdormen Cyrino, of Sirian lande, þæt ælc man ofer-hēafod sceoldecennan his gebyrde, and his áre on ðære byrig þe hé to gehyrde.

     This enrolment was set forth from Cyrenius, the governor of Syria—that every man in general shoulddeclare his birth and his possession in the city to which he belonged.

2. toproduce, bring forth,declare

• ġecennan
• frumcenned

• Middle English:kennen,kenin
  • English:ken
  • Scots:ken
  • Yola:ee-kent(ppl.)

FromProto-West Germanic*kannjan, fromProto-Germanic*kanjaną, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵonh₁éyeti, the causative formation of the root*ǵenh₁-.

cennan

1. togive birth to (a child), todeliver, tobear

• ācennan(“to bring forth (a child)”)

• Middle English:kennen

• Joseph Bosworth;T. Northcote Toller (1898), “cennan”, inAn Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford:Oxford University Press.

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