Dane
English
Etymology
From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir. Displaced native Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.
Noun
Dane (plural Danes)
- A person of Danish descent.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:
- Fresleven - that was the fellow’s name, a Dane - thought himself wronged somehow in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to hammer the chief of the village with a stick.
- A person from Denmark.
- (historical) A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.
- 1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170:
- Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
Synonyms
- (person from Denmark): Danish, (rare) Danishman, (dated) Denmarkian
Derived terms
- Dane County (from the surname)
- Great Dane
- Red Dane
Translations
person from Denmark or of Danish descent
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Proper noun
Dane
- A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
- 1913, Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2008, →ISBN, page 13:
- Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane". He liked that one. It suggested something.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
- 1977, Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, Gramercy Books, published 1998, →ISBN, pages 432–433:
- "I'm going to call him Dane."
"What a queer name! Why? Is it an O'Neill family name? I thought you were finished with the O'Neills."
"It's got nothing to do with Luke. This is his name, no one else's. - - - I called Justine Justine simply because I liked the name, and I'm calling Dane Dane for the same reason."
"Well, it does have a nice ring to it," Fee admitted.
- A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdanɛ]
- Rhymes: -anɛ
- Hyphenation: Da‧ne
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Through Old French Dan, or directly from Old Norse Danir, in turn from Proto-Germanic *daniz. Displaced native Old English Dene.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdaːn(ə)/
Descendants
- English: Dane
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