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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

ane.

guess, sense (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility)

3 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈɑːnə/
  1. guess, sense (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility)

    ane fred og ingen fare
    ane uråd
  2. suspect, assume (to imagine or suppose (something) to be true without evidence)

  3. to be a glimpse (something barely noticeable), to spot

    literary · obsolete
  4. to know

    intet ondt anende
Where this word comes from

From Low German anen. Cognate with German ahnen, Dutch anen, Saterland Frisian oanje, German Low German ahnen and Luxembourgish ahnen.

noun
  1. an ancestor; ancestry (deceased relative a good distance back in time)

    masculine · plural
    Ha fine aner.
  2. a concestor (the last common ancestor, especially of several different species)

    masculine · plural
  3. a predecessor (person who is the origin of something)

    masculine
  4. origins, history

    in-plural · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German ane, an, from Proto-Germanic *anô (“male ancestor; forefather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Cognate with German Ahn, Latin anus, Yiddish אָן (on), Danish ane and possibly Icelandic ái.

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