kenning

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

kennings

1.
(obsolete)Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.
2.
(obsolete)The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.
3.
As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.
put in a kenning of salt
4.
(obsolete, rare)(zoology, obsolete, rare) A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.
5.
(poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.
6.
(Northern England)A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.

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verb

1.
(form of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of ken.

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From Middle English kenning, kening (instruction, teaching; experience, knowledge; sight, view), from kennen + -ing. Kennen is derived from Old English cennan (to make known, declare), from *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (to make known), the causative form of *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (to know).