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vanne

Pronunciation: /²ʋanːə/

“vanne” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 14 meanings in English:

noun

  1. water, waters or a fairway, chiefly in fixed expressions
  2. water level
  3. the surface of a body of water
  4. a state in which one is still managing financially or otherwise

verb

  1. to water; to pour or spray water onto a plant, field, material or surface
  2. to wet, moisten or bathe in tears
  3. to fill with saliva because one's appetite has been stimulated; to water
  4. to supply a region with water; to irrigate
  5. to give a person or, especially, an animal water to drink
  6. to allow livestock or other animals to bathe or cleanse themselves in water
  7. to become covered with meltwater
  8. to urinate, piss; to pass water
  9. to strike the surface of the water
  10. to land or alight on the water

Etymology

A fossilized case form of vann (“water”), historically either the dative singular or the genitive plural. Compare Old Norse vatni (“dative singular of vatn”) and vatna (“genitive plural of vatn”).

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