rannsaka

From Old Norse rannsaka.

rannsaka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rannsakaði, supine rannsakað)

1. to investigate
2. to research, to study

rann (“house”) +‎ saka (“damage”), the former from Proto-Germanic *razną (“house, dwelling”).

rannsaka (singular past indicative rannsakaði, plural past indicative rannsǫkuðu, past participle rannsakaður)

1. to investigate
2. to ransack

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “rannsaka”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Swedish ransaka (“house-search”), from rann, corresponding to Icelandic rann (“house”), related to granne (“neighbor”), and a verb saka, derived from söka (“to search”); from Old Norse rannsaka.

rannsaka (present rannsakar, preterite rannsakade, supine rannsakat, imperative rannsaka)

1. to carefully and critically examine, to scrutinize (often introspectively)

   rannsaka sina motiv

   examine one's motives

   rannsaka sig själv

   take a deep look at oneself / do some soul-searching

   Hon rannsakade sitt minne

   She searched her memory

2. (dated) to question in court

Closest to the archaic sense of English ransack.

• rannsakan

• förhöra
• rådbråka
• stegla

• rannsaka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rannsaka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rannsaka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• rannsaka in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• ankarnas