hann

See also: Hann

Akan

Noun

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /han/

Verb

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

  1. (most dialects) to have

Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hann

  1. he

Declension

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (stressed) IPA(key): /ˈhanː/
    Rhymes: -anː
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  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /an(ː)/

Pronoun

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!

Declension

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.

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

  1. (zoology) a male

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From han (“he”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /han/

Noun

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.

Antonyms

Derived terms

References

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • ᚼᛅᚾ (han), ᛅᚾ (an), ᚼᚬᚾ (hąn), ᚬᚾ (ąn) — Runic form, nominative/accusative
  • ᛅᚾᚢᛘ (anum), ᚬᚾᚢᛘ (ąnum) — Runic form, dative
  • ᚼᛅᚾᛋ (hans), ᛅᚾᛋ (ans), ᚼᚬᚾᛋ (hąns), ᚭᚾᛋ (ąns) — Runic form, genitive

Etymology

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

hann

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

Declension

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

  • 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

  • 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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

    Verb

    hann (third-person singular present hadd)

    1. (western Palatine) to have

    Descendants

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

    Swedish

    Pronunciation

    • Audio:(file)
    • Homophone: han

    Verb

    hann

    1. past indicative of hinna

    Usage notes

    A homophone of han (“he”).

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