van-

van-

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

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

van-

1. too little, short of, lacking in

• ill-, mis-, rang- (mal-)
• of-
• ó-

From Old Norse van-.

van-

1. mal-, mis-

• “van-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse van-.

van-

1. mal-, mis-

• “van-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

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

van-

1. denoting lacking, under-, un-

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

• van- in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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

van-

1. mis-, un-, de-, without

• miss-

• anv., nav