anse
Danish
Etymology
From an (“on”) + se (“to see”), from German ansehen (“to look at, consider”). In both languages, the participle is used as an adjective with the meaning "respectable" (see anset, angesehen). Doublet of se an.
Pronunciation
Verb
anse (imperative anse, infinitive at anse, present tense anser, past tense anså, perfect tense har anset)
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French anse, from Late Old French anse, borrowed from Latin ānsa.
Noun
anse f (plural anses)
- (geometry) an arc segment, from which an object is suspended
- a handle, part of an object to be hand-held when used or moved
- a small bay (body of water)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Noun
anse f (plural anses)
- a hansa, system of collaborating port-states
Related terms
- anséatique (adjective)
Further reading
- “anse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
anse f
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
an- + se; from German ansehen
Verb
anse (imperative anse, present tense anser, passive anses or ansees, simple past anså, past participle ansett, present participle anseende)
Derived terms
References
- “anse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From an- (“un-”) + asse (“easy”), or directly from Proto-Celtic *an-sādo-syos (compare Middle Welsh anhawð, modern Welsh anodd (“difficult, troublesome”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
anse (comparative ansu, superlative ansam)
- difficult, impossible
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b28
- is inse ṅduit; ní tú nod·n-ail, acht is hé not·ail.
- it is impossible for you sg; it is not you that nourish it, but it that nourishes you
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b28
Declension
io/iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | anse | anse | anse |
Vocative | ansi | ||
Accusative | anse | ansi | |
Genitive | ansi | anse | ansi |
Dative | ansu | ansi | ansu |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | ansi | ansi | |
Vocative | ansi ansu* | ||
Accusative | ansi ansu* | ||
Genitive | anse | ||
Dative | ansib | ||
Notes | * when substantivized |
Derived terms
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
anse (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-anse |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sādo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 318
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ansae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish anse, from Middle Low German ansen. Equivalent to an- + se.
Pronunciation
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Verb
anse (present anser, preterite ansåg, supine ansett, imperative anse)
- to be of an opinion, to think, to believe, to feel
- Sven anser att Beatles var riktigt bra
- Sven thinks (is of the opinion) that the Beatles were really good
- Vi anser att den här metoden är mest lovande
- We believe (are of the opinion that) this method is the most promising
Conjugation
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | anse | anses | ||
Supine | ansett | ansetts | ||
Imperative | anse | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | ansen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | anser | ansåg | anses | ansågs |
Ind. plural1 | anse | ånsågo | anses | ånsågos |
Subjunctive2 | anse | ånsåge | anses | ånsåges |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | anseende | |||
Past participle | ansedd | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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