rannsaka

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse rannsaka. === Verb === rannsaka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rannsakaði, supine rannsakað) to investigate to research, to study ==== Conjugation ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === rann (“house”) +‎ saka (“damage”), the former from Proto-Germanic *razną (“house, dwelling”). === Verb === rannsaka (singular past indicative rannsakaði, plural past indicative rannsǫkuðu, past participle rannsakaður) to investigate to ransack ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “rannsaka”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish ransaka (“house-search”), from rann, corresponding to Icelandic rann (“house”), related to granne (“neighbor”), and a verb saka, derived from söka (“to search”); from Old Norse rannsaka. === Verb === rannsaka (present rannsakar, preterite rannsakade, supine rannsakat, imperative rannsaka) to carefully and critically examine, to scrutinize (often introspectively) (dated) to question in court ==== Usage notes ==== Closest to the archaic sense of English ransack. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== rannsakan ==== See also ==== förhöra rådbråka stegla === References === “rannsaka”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “rannsaka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “rannsaka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) rannsaka in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922) === Anagrams === ankarnas