Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kunnan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kunnaną.

Verb

*kunnan

1. to recognise
2. to know how, be able

Inflection

*kann, *kant, *kunnun, *kunþā, *kunnan

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Old English: cunnan
  • Middle English: cunnen, conne, connen, cun, cunne, can, canne, kanne (especially Northern, from the present singular)
    • English: can, con, cun, could, cunning, canny
    • Scots: can, cun, cunning
    • Yola: canna, cou
• Old Frisian: kunna
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: kön

    Hallig: kune

    Helgoland: kan

    Mooring: koone

    Sylt: ken

  • Saterland Frisian: konne
  • West Frisian: kinne
• Old Saxon: kunnan
  • Middle Low German: künnen, kynnen, kunnen, konnen, können, kȫnen, konen
    • Low German: könen, können, künnen
      • German Low German: känen
    • Plautdietsch: kjanen
• Old Dutch: *kunnan, cunnan
  • Middle Dutch: connen
    • Dutch: kunnen, (dialectal) kennen, konnen
      • Afrikaans: kan (from inflected form kan)
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: kan (from inflected form kan)
      • Javindo: ken
      • Negerhollands: kan, ka (from inflected form kan)
      • Petjo: kan, ken
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: can (from inflected form kan)
    • Limburgish: kónne
    • West Flemish: keunn
• Old High German: kunnan, chunnan
  • Middle High German: kunnen, künnen
    • Alemannic German: chöne, chönne (Uri)
      • Swabian: kenna
        • Sathmar Swabian: kenne
    • Central Franconian: kenne, känne (variant spelling)
    • East Central German:

      Erzgebirgisch: kènn

      Upper Saxon German: gönn

    • German: können
    • Luxembourgish: kënnen
    • Rhine Franconian:
      • Pennsylvania German: kenne
    • Vilamovian: kenna
    • Yiddish: קענען (kenen)