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hann

See also: Hann

Akan

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Noun

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hann

  1. light
    Na Onyankopɔn kaa sɛ: ɛnyɛ hann! Na ɛyɛɛ hann. ― And God said, let there be light! And there was light.

Central Franconian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

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hann (third-person singular present hät or hat, past tense hatt, past participle jehatt or gehatt)

  1. (most dialects) to have

Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin.

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Pronoun

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hann

  1. he

Declension

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Faroese personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive
singular 1st person eg, jeg meg, mjeg mær mín
2nd person tú teg, tjeg tær tín
3rd person m hann honum hansara, hans†
f hon hana henni hennara, hennar†
n tað tí tess
plural 1st person vit okkum okkara
2nd person tit tykkum tykkara
3rd person m teir teimum, teim† teirra
f tær
n tey

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin.

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Pronoun

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hann

  1. (personal pronoun): he
    Hann er gamall.
    He is old.
    Hann drap hann.
    He killed him.
  2. (personal pronoun): accusative of hann: him
    Hann drap hann.
    He killed him.
    Hættu þessu! Ég elska hann!
    Stop it! I love him!

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Icelandic personal pronouns
singular first person second person third person
masculine feminine neuter
nominative ég, eg, ek† þú hann hún, hon†, hón† það, þat†
accusative mig, mik† þig, þik† hann hana það, þat†
dative mér þér honum, hánum† henni því
genitive mín þín hans hennar þess
plural first person second person third person
masculine feminine neuter
nominative við þið, þit† þeir þær þau
accusative okkur ykkur þá þær þau
dative okkur ykkur þeim þeim þeim
genitive okkar ykkar þeirra þeirra þeirra

† Archaic. See also honorific pronouns.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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hann m (definite singular hannen, indefinite plural hanner, definite plural hannene)

  1. (zoology) a male

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From han (“he”).

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Noun

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hann m (definite singular hannen, indefinite plural hannar, definite plural hannane)

  1. male
    Hjå mange artar har hannar og hoer ulik storleik.
    The males and females of many species have different sizes.

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From earlier *hánn, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a compound of *he- (corresponding to English he) and *ānaʀ (from Proto-Germanic *jainaz, corresponding to Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains)) or even directly from *ānaʀ with h- added due to influence from the demonstrative pronoun hinn, or else perhaps directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European and answering to Ancient Greek κεῖνος (keînos).

The long vowel is preserved in the masculine dative hǫ́num and feminine nominative hǫ́n, both affected by u-umlaut (Proto-Norse *hānumʀ, *hānu).

Pronoun

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hann

  1. he (third-person nominative singular masculine personal pronoun)

Declension

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Old Norse personal pronouns
singular first person second person reflexive third person
masculine feminine neuter
nominative ek þú — hann hon, hón, hǫ́n þat
accusative mik þik sik hann hana, hána þat
dative mér þér sér hánum, hónum, hǫ́num henni því
genitive mín þín sín hans hennar þess
dual first person second person reflexive
nominative vit it, þit —
accusative okkr ykkr sik
dative okkr ykkr sér
genitive okkar ykkar sín
plural first person second person reflexive third person
masculine feminine neuter
nominative vér ér, þér — þeir þær þau
accusative oss yðr sik þá þær þau
dative oss yðr sér þeim þeim þeim
genitive vár yðar, yðvar sín þeira, þeirra þeira, þeirra þeira, þeirra

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: hann
  • Faroese: hann
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: han
    • Russenorsk: han
  • Norwegian Bokmål: han
  • Elfdalian: an
  • Old Swedish: han
  • Danish: han (hand)
  • Old Gutnish: hann

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hann”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

Rhine Franconian

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Etymology

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    From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

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    hann (third-person singular present hadd)

    1. (western Palatine) to have

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    • Frankfurterisch: [havə]; [hɑvə], [hɔvə] (older)
    • Palatine German: hann, hawwe, hunn
    • Pennsylvania German: hawwe
    • Upper Hessian: hu, hunn

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    Pronunciation

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    • Audio:(file)
    • Homophone: han

    Verb

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    hann

    1. past indicative of hinna

    Usage notes

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    A homophone of han (“he”).

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