kenning
As little as one can discriminate or recognizeAs little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.
Meaning
6 sensesAs little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.
put in a kenning of salt
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.
Kenning
ке́ннингkénning
conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
(Northern England)A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.
(obsolete)Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.
(obsolete)The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.
(obsolete, rare)A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English kenning, kening (“instruction, teaching; experience, knowledge; sight,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”).
From ken (“to beget, bring forth”), from Middle English kennen (“to beget, conceive (offspring); to give birth to”), from Old English cennan, gecennan (“to beget (offspring); to give birth to; to bring forth, produce”); see further at etymology 1.
A learned borrowing from Old Norse kenning, from kenna (“to know; to perceive”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to make known”); see further at etymology 1. Compare can, keen, ken.
Origin unknown.
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