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Added 7 October 2026

ken

/kɛn/ symbol

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ISO 639-3 language code for Kenyang.

verb

To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).

verb

To know, perceive or understand.
To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.

noun

Origin

From Middle English kennen (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget; to develop (as a fetus), hatch out (of eggs); to sustain, nourish, nurture”), from Old English cennan (“to give birth, conceive, generate, beget”), from Proto-West Germanic *kannjan, from Proto-Germanic *kanjaną.

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