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havaintopiiri puhekieltä To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
The Treatise on The Paster Noster (15th c.)

To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives.

These people, these 20 or 25, were in my ken. Senator Jenner. In his what? Mr. Greenglass. My ken, my line of vision, my knowledge.

On this occasion, I wrote to them: "Two more modest and deserving people than you are not in our ken; and it is but fitting that you receive this, preservation's most prestigious prize, for your selfless devotion to the cause through the years.

Since nothing in our ken differentiates knowledge from luck, something beyond our ken is introduced to do so. But the conviction that we know something is small comfort when coupled with the realization that we cannot tell what.

I couldn't see the funny side myself, but Tristan could; after a while he could hardly control his merriment, in fact, so that he collapsed back on the bed, continuing to chortle, more of his rather unpleasant teeth making an unwelcome appearance in my ken.

I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of the telescope upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.

We ken them from afar.''

'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.

Do ye ken w:John_Peel_(huntsman) John Peel with his coat so gay? - 19th century Cumberland Cumbrian ballad

Do you know Ken knows Ken?"