Editing Kenning (section)

==Etymology==

The corresponding modern verb ''to ken'' survives in Scots and English dialects and in general English through the derivative existing in the standard language in the set expression ''beyond one's ken'', "beyond the scope of one's knowledge" and in the phonologically altered forms ''uncanny'', {{gloss|surreal, supernatural}}, and ''canny'', {{gloss|shrewd, prudent}}. Modern [[Scots language|Scots]] retains (with slight differences between dialects) {{lang|sco|tae ken}} {{gloss|to know}}, {{lang|sco|kent}} {{gloss|knew}} or {{gloss|known}}, [[Afrikaans]] {{lang|af|ken}} {{gloss|be acquainted with}} and {{gloss|to know}} and {{lang|af|kennis}} {{gloss|knowledge}}. Old Norse {{lang|non|kenna}} ([[Icelandic language|Modern Icelandic]] {{lang|is|kenna}}, [[Swedish language|Swedish]] {{lang|sv|känna}}, [[Danish language|Danish]] {{lang|da|kende}}, Norwegian {{lang|no|kjenne}} or {{lang|no|kjenna}}) is [[cognate]] with Old English {{lang|ang|cennan}}, [[Old Frisian]] {{lang|ofs|kenna}}, {{lang|ofs|kanna}}, [[Old Saxon]] ({{lang|osx|ant}}){{lang|osx|kennian}} (Middle Dutch and [[Dutch language|Dutch]] {{lang|dum|kennen}}), [[Old High German]] ({{lang|goh|ir-}}, {{lang|goh|in-}}, {{lang|goh|pi-}}) {{lang|goh|chennan}} ([[Middle High German]] and [[German language|German]] {{lang|gmh|kennen}}), [[Gothic language|Gothic]] {{lang|got|kannjan}} < [[Proto-Germanic]] {{Lang|gem-x-proto|kannjanan}}, originally [[causative]] of {{Lang|gem-x-proto|kunnanan}} {{gloss|to know (how to)}}, whence [[Modern English]] ''can'' {{gloss|to be able}}. The word ultimately derives from {{Lang|ine-x-proto|ǵneh₃}}, the same [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] root that yields Modern English ''know'', [[Latin]]-derived terms such as ''cognition'' and ''ignorant'', and [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|el-latn|gnosis}}.<ref name="OED Online">{{Citation |title=Help |url=https://public.oed.com/help/ |work=Oxford English Dictionary |access-date=May 6, 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507181420/https://public.oed.com/help/ |archive-date= May 7, 2020 }}</ref>