kvan

Danish

en kvan
a garden angelica

Etymology

From dialectal Norwegian kvan, from Old Norse hvǫnn. Compare Icelandic hvönn, Faroese hvonn, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kvann, and Swedish kvanne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kvæˀn], [kvanˀ], [kvan]

Noun

kvan c (singular definite kvanen or kvannen, plural indefinite kvaner or kvanner)

1. garden angelica, wild celery, Norwegian angelica; Angelica archangelica

Declension

Declension of kvan

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kvan	kvanen kvannen	kvaner kvanner	kvanerne kvannerne
genitive	kvans	kvanens kvannens	kvaners kvanners	kvanernes kvannernes

References

“kvan” in Den Danske Ordbog