känd

From Proto-Finnic *kanto, probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kanta, the same root as kand (“heel”) (Proto-Finnic *kanta). Another theory suggests a borrowing from Proto-Indo-Iranian *skandʰás, compare Sanskrit स्कन्ध (skandha).

The irregular change *a > ä has occurred to differentiate from kand (“heel”), though many dialects retain the original vowel.

Cognates include Votic, Ingrian, and Finnish kanto, Võro, Livonian, Ludian, and Veps kand, Karelian kando; Northern Sami guottu, Lule Sami guottoj, Pite Sami guoddo, Southern Sami gåådte (from Proto-Samic *kuontōj); Erzya кандо (kando, “block, log”), Moksha канда (kanda, “block, log”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænd̥/, [ˈkænd̥]

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• Rhymes: -ænd̥
• Hyphenation: känd

känd (genitive kännu, partitive kändu)

1. (tree) stump, stub

   käbi ei kuku kännust kaugele (idiomatic) ― the apple does not fall far from the tree (literally, “the cone does not fall far from the tree stump”)

2. (figuratively) an elderly person

   Synonym: rauk

   • 1957 January, Paul Kuusberg, “Müürid [Walls]”, in Ilmar Sikemäe, editor, Looming [Creation], volume 1, Tallinn, section 31, page 29:

     Nendegi uulitsal võttis number kümnenda maja omanik, seitsmekümne kahe aastane känd, uue naise, priske, naerulõkerdava kolmekümne viiese emanda. Ei kannatanud lesepõlve välja.

     Even on their own street, the owner of house No. 10, a seventy-two-year-old man, took a new wife, a plump, smiling thirty-five-year-old woman. He just couldn't endure widowhood.

3. (figuratively) from which sth or sb evolves or originates; kin, kinship
   • 1922, Jaan Kärner, “Eesti teatri tekkimine ja esialgne arenemine [The emergence and initial development of Estonian theatre]”, in Eesti teatri ajalugu. I [The History of Estonian Theatre I], Tallinn: T. Mutsu, →ISBN, page 5:

     Nagu kogu Eesti waimuelu, nii põlweneb ka Eesti teater Saksa kännust ja saab omad inspiratsioonid mitme aastakümne jooksul pääasjaliselt Saksa eeskujudelt.

     Like the Estonian intellectual life as a whole, Estonian theatre has its roots in Germany and has been inspired for many decades mainly by German models.

• (old man): rauk

• känd in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “känd”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɕɛnd/

känd

1. past participle of känna

känd (comparative mer känd, superlative mest känd)

1. known

   Antonym: okänd

2. famous

   Antonym: okänd

• kändis
• ökänd
• välkänd

• känd in Svensk ordbok.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

känd

1. (grammar) case

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “падеж”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika