dene

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophones: dean, Deane

Etymology 1

From Middle English dene, from Old English dene.

Alternative forms

• dean, den

Noun

dene (plural denes)

1. (Northumbria) a valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet

Usage notes

This, or perhaps Old English dene, is found elsewhere in placenames, particularly in southern England, including Dene Park in Tonbridge, Kent, The Dene in Southwater, Sussex, Deepdene in Dorking, Surrey, The Dene in Alresford, Hampshire, Dene Hollow in south Birmingham, Denefield in Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, and Primrose Dene in Knottingley, Yorkshire

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to Middle Low German düne (“dune”).

Noun

dene (plural denes)

1. a sand dune by the seashore

Anagrams

• Eden, Ende, deen, eden, ende, need

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.ne/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ne/,

Numeral

dēne

1. vocative masculine singular of dēnus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *deno.

Noun

dēne m

1. Dane

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Deen
• Limburgish: daen

Further reading

• “dene”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English dene; possibly originally the same word as den (“den”).

Alternative forms

• dane, den, deyne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛːn(ə)/

Noun

dene

1. valley

Descendants

• English: dene, dean, Deane
• Scots: den (conflated with den)

References

• “den, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin dēni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːn(ə)/

Numeral

dene

1. (nonce word) ten

References

• “dẹ̄ne, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

dene

1. Alternative form of den (“dean”)

Etymology 4

Noun

dene

1. Alternative form of dynne

Etymology 5

Verb

dene

1. Alternative form of deynen (“to disdain”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• denu

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *danją, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“low ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.ne/

Noun

dene f

1. valley
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Another Vision"

     Þā becōmon wit tō ānre dene sēo wæs ormǣtlīċe dēop and wīd.

     Then we reached a valley that was enormously deep and wide.

Declension

Descendants

• English: dene

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲeːnʲe/

Verb

dene

1. Alternative spelling of déne

Mutation

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan . Cognates include Navajo diné and Dogrib done.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: de‧ne

Noun

dene (stem -dene-)

1. man
2. person
3. husband

Usage notes

• People of Slavey ethnicity are simply called dene (literally "human"). When specification is needed, denekéhle (literally “true human”) is used.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈne/
• Hyphenation: de‧ne

Etymology 1

Noun

dene (definite accusative deneyi, plural deneler)

1. (regional) Alternative form of tane

Etymology 2

Verb

dene

1. second-person singular imperative of denemek

West Makian

Etymology

From de (“I”) +‎ ne (“this”). Compare dema.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪e.ˈn̪e/

Pronoun

dene (possessive prefix ti)

1. (emphatic) first-person singular pronoun, I here

   dene musti tidadi puni ― I must become a spirit

See also

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics