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English
Etymology
From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse danir. Displaced native Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.
Pronunciation
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.
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person from Denmark or of Danish descent
- Afrikaans: Deen (af)
- Arabic: دَانِمَارْكِيّ m (danimārkiyy), دَانِمَرْكِيَّة f (danimarkiyya)
- Armenian: դանիացի (hy) (daniacʻi)
- Azerbaijani: danimarkalı
- Basque: daniar
- Belarusian: датча́нін m (datčánin), датча́нка f (datčánka)
- Bengali: দিনেমার (bn) (dinemar)
- Bulgarian: датчанин (bg) m (datčanin)
- Catalan: danès (ca) m, danesa (ca) f
- Valencian: danés (ca) m, danesa (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎠᏕᏂ (adeni)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 丹麥人/丹麦人 (zh) (Dānmài-rén)
- Czech: Dán (cs) m, Dánka (cs) f
- Danish: dansker (da) c
- Dutch: Deen (nl) m, Deense (nl) f
- Esperanto: (an ethnic Dane) dano (eo), (an inhabitant of Denmark) daniano
- Estonian: (please verify) taanlane (male and female), (please verify) taanlanna (female)
- Farefare: daŋa
- Faroese: dani (fo) m, danskari m
- Finnish: tanskalainen (fi)
- French: Danois (fr) m, Danoise (fr) f
- Galician: dinamarqués (gl) m, dinamarquesa f
- Georgian: დანიელი (danieli)
- German: Däne (de) m, Dänin (de) f
- Greek: Δανός (el) m (Danós), Δανή (el) f (Daní)
- Greenlandic: danskeq
- Hawaiian: Kenemaka
- Hindi: डैनिश (hi) (ḍainiś), डेनिश (ḍeniś), डेन (ḍen)
- Hungarian: dán (hu)
- Icelandic: Dani (is) m
- Ido: Dano (io) c or n, Danulo m, Danino f
- Irish: Danar m, Danmhargach m
- Italian: danese (it) m or f
- Japanese: デンマーク人 (ja) (Denmāku-jin)
- Kazakh: даттық (dattyq)
- Khmer: ដាណឺ (daanəɨ)
- Korean: 덴마크 사람 (Denmakeu saram)
- Latvian: dānis m, dāniete f
- Lithuanian: danas (lt) m, danė (lt) f
- Macedonian: Данец m (Danec), Данка (mk) f (Danka)
- Maori: Teina
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: danske (no) m
- Nynorsk: danske (nn) m
- Polish: Duńczyk (pl) m, Dunka (pl) f
- Portuguese: dinamarquês (pt) m, dinamarquesa f, danês m
- Romanian: danez (ro)
- Russian: датча́нин (ru) m (datčánin), датча́нка (ru) f (datčánka)
- Scottish Gaelic: Danmhairgeach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Да́нац m, Данкиња f
- Roman: Dánac (sh) m, Dankinja f
- Slovak: Dán (sk) m, Dánka (sk) f
- Slovene: Dánec (sl) m, Dánka (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Dan m
- Spanish: danés (es) m, danesa (es) f
- Swahili: Mdeni (sw) sg, Wadeni (sw) pl
- Swedish: dansk (sv) c (male), danska (sv) c (female)
- Tagalog: Danes (tl)
- Turkish: Dan, Danimarkalı (tr)
- Ukrainian: да́нці pl (dánci), да́нка f (dánka), да́нець m (dánecʹ)
- Volapük: Danänan (vo)
- Welsh: Daniad m
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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.
Anagrams
- Aden, Dean, Dena, Edna, Enda, Nead, aden-, ande, dean, eDNA, nade
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dane
- vocative singular of Dan
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
Noun
Dane (plural Danes)
- Dane
Descendants