van-

Danish edit

Prefix edit

van-

giving the sense of wrong, bad; mis-, dys-, mal-

Derived terms edit

Danish terms prefixed with van-

Derived terms

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Compare Old Norse vanr (“lacking, wanting”).

Prefix edit

van-

too little, short of, lacking in

Derived terms edit

See also edit

ill-, mis-, rang- (mal-)
of-
ó-

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix edit

van-

mal-, mis-

Derived terms edit

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with van-

References edit

“van-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix edit

van-

mal-, mis-

Derived terms edit

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with van-

References edit

“van-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse edit

Alternative forms edit

var- (possibly not of the same origin).

Etymology edit

From vanr (“what is lacking”), from Proto-Germanic *wanaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon”). See also modern English wan-.

Prefix edit

van-

denoting lacking, under-, un-

Derived terms edit

Old Norse terms prefixed with van-

Descendants edit

Icelandic: van-
Faroese: van-
Norwegian Nynorsk: van-
Norwegian Bokmål: van-
Swedish: van-
Danish: van-

References edit

van- in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Cognate with English wan-.

Prefix edit

van-

mis-, un-, de-, without

Derived terms edit

Swedish terms prefixed with van-

See also edit

miss-

Anagrams edit

anv., nav

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