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kenning

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɛnɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted egiknnnStarts with KEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • Scylley is a Kenning, that is to ſay about an xx. Miles from the very Weſteſte Point of Cornewaulle.
  • put in a kenning of salt
  • His father was none so ill a man, though a kenning on the wrong side of the law, and no friend to my family, that I should waste my breath to be defending him!

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