van-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "van"

Danish

Etymology

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

Prefix

van-

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

Derived terms

References

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Prefix

van-

  1. too little, short of, lacking in

Derived terms

too little, short of

See also

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix

van-

  1. mal-, mis-

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with van-

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse van-.

Prefix

van-

  1. mal-, mis-

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with van-

References

Old Norse

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Prefix

van-

  1. denoting lacking, under-, un-

Derived terms

Old Norse terms prefixed with van-

Descendants

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

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “van-”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 469; also available at the Internet Archive

Swedish

Etymology

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

Prefix

van-

  1. mis-, un-, de-, without (also implying something bad)

Derived terms

See also

References

Anagrams