kenning (Crossword)
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- Exclusively Saxon word
- Exclusively Anglo word
- Figure
- Figure of speech
- Image
- Imperial unit
- Knowing: Scot
- Poetic device
- Trope
- Word of purely Anglo origin
- Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
- Word with no outside influence
Definitions of “kenning”
If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.• A form of compounding in Old English, Old Norse, and Germanic poetry
• The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles
• A kenning (Modern Icelandic pronunciation: cʰɛnːiŋk
• A periphrastic compound whereby two or more nouns are used to replace another noun e
• A compound word in Old English poetry that replaces the usual name for something
• (unit) A kenning is an obsolete unit of dry measure in the imperial system
• A conventional poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing
• Concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic
• In Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature, a figure of speech in which a descriptive phrase is used to refer to people or objects
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