van-

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Danish[edit]

Prefix[edit]

van-

  1. giving the sense of wrong, bad; mis-, dys-, mal-

Derived terms[edit]

Danish terms prefixed with van-
Derived terms

Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Compare Old Norse vanr (“lacking, wanting”).

Prefix[edit]

van-

  1. too little, short of, lacking in

Derived terms[edit]

too little, short of

See also[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix[edit]

van-

  1. mal-, mis-

Derived terms[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with van-

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix[edit]

van-

  1. mal-, mis-

Derived terms[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with van-

References[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • var- (possibly not of the same origin).

Etymology[edit]

From vanr (“what is lacking”), from Proto-Germanic *wanaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon”). See also modern English wan-.

Prefix[edit]

van-

  1. denoting lacking, under-, un-

Derived terms[edit]

Old Norse terms prefixed with van-

Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: van-
  • Faroese: van-
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: van-
  • Norwegian Bokmål: van-
  • Swedish: van-
  • Danish: van-

References[edit]

  • van- in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse van-, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, deficient”). Cognate with English wan-.

Prefix[edit]

van-

  1. mis-, un-, de-, without

Derived terms[edit]

Swedish terms prefixed with van-

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

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