Kanna
Old Icelandic Dictionary - kannaMeaning of Old Icelandic word "kanna" in English.
As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):
kanna Old Icelandic word can mean:
- kanna
- I)
- kanna
- (gen. könnu), f. can, tankard.
- kanna
- II)
- kanna
- (að), v.
- kanna
- 1) to search, explore (þeir könnuðu landit fyrir austan ána);
- kanna
- ~ lið, to review, muster troops;
- kanna
- ~ val, to search the field for slain;
- kanna
- ~ e-t af, to find out, make out (ferr Brandr biskup norðr á Völlu ok ~r þat af, at);
- kanna
- ~ til = ~ af (~ðist svá til, at);
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- 2) refl., ~st við e-t, to recognize, know again (~ðist hón við hann ok kynferði hans); to make one’s acquaintance (Þórólfr hitti þar marga frændr sina þá, er hann hafði eigi áðr við ~zt); to acknowledge (könnuðust þeir við, at þat var sannmæli); to recognize as one’s own (með því at engi ~st við svein þenna); recipr., to recognize one another (síðan könnuðust þau við).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᛅᚾᚾᛅ
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- gen.
- genitive.
- n.
- neuter.
- e-t
- eitthvat.
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