ken

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To know, perceive or understand.
2. (obsolete) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.

Noun

1. Knowledge, perception, or sight.
2. Range of sight.

Noun

A house, especially a den of thieves.

Noun

Youth or children's group.

Noun

A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.

Noun

The tsurugi (type of sword).

Concepts

connaissance

savoir

vision

vue

ken

Synonymes

knowledge

cognizance

awareness

sight

competency

understanding

consciousness

proficiency

command

realization

learning

know

lucidity

competence

skill

grasp

grip

harass

heckle

hold

incommode

inconvenience

infest

intellect

irk

outlook

penetration

pester

pother

prospect

savvy

scenery

scope

sense

trouble

view

visibility

grate on

jar on

perception

acquaintance

intuitive feeling

ail

annoy

apprehension

badger

🦡

bedevil

bother

cognition

comprehension

derange

discernment

discommode

disturb

feeling

fret

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɛn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: kennen

Hérité de ancien anglais: cennan

Appartenant à frison occidental: kenne

Appartenant à néerlandais: kennen

Appartenant à allemand: kennen

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: kjenne

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: kjenna

Appartenant à vieux norrois: kenna

Appartenant à suédois: känna

Appartenant à danois: kende

In summary

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-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, causative of *kunnaną (“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”), Danish kende (“to know”). See also: can, con.
The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning.