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kunst

“kunst” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. art
  2. artificial, man-made; see also kunstig.

Etymology

From Middle Low German kunst (“knowledge, ability”), from Old Saxon kunst, from Proto-Germanic *kunstiz (“knowledge, ability”), from the verb *kunnaną (“to know, recognise”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti (“to know, recognize”), from *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-né- (forms transitive imperfective verbs).

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