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kvan

Pronunciation: [kvæˀn]

“kvan” is a Danish word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. garden angelica, wild celery, Norwegian angelica; Angelica archangelica

Etymology

From dialectal Norwegian kvan, from Old Norse hvǫnn. Compare Icelandic hvönn, Faroese hvonn, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kvann, and Swedish kvanne.

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