kenning
Meaning
-
present participle and gerund of ken.
Hyphenated as
ken‧ning
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɛnɪŋ/
Etymology
In summary
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-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to make known”), the causative form of *kunnaną (“to know, be familiar with, recognize; to be able to, know how”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Compare Danish kending (“acquaintance”), and see further at ken.
New
ken
-
- To know, perceive or understand.
- (obsolete) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
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