Dane

See also dane, and Däne

English

Etymology

From Danish Daner (“Danes”), from Old Norse Danir. Replaced native Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

Dane (plural Danes)

1. A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.

Synonyms

• Danish

Derived terms

• Great Dane

Translations

person from Denmark or of Danish descent

Arabic: دانماركي (ar) (danimaarkiy) m., دانمركية (ar) (danimarkíyya) f. Armenian: դանիացի (hy) (daniaci) m., դանուհի (hy) (danuhi) f. Basque: daniar (eu) Catalan: danès (ca) m., danesa (ca) f. Valencian: danés (ca) m., danesa (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 丹麦人 (cmn) (Dānmài-rén) Croatian: Danac (hr) m., Dankinja (hr) f. Czech: Dán (cs) m. Danish: dansker (da) c. Dutch: Deen (nl) m., Deense (nl) f. Estonian: taanlane (male and female), taanlanna (female) Faroese: dani (fo) m., danskari (fo) m. Finnish: tanskalainen (fi) French: Danois (fr) m., Danoise (fr) f. German: Däne (de) m., Dänin (de) f. Greek: Δανός or Δανέζος m., Δανή or Δανέζα f. Greenlandic: Danskeq Hindi: डेनिश (hi) (ḍēniś), डेन (hi) (ḍēn)

Icelandic: Dani (is) m. Irish: Danar (ga) Italian: danese (it) m. and f. Japanese: デンマーク人 (ja) (Denmāku-jin) Korean: 덴마크 사람 (ko) (Denmakeu saram) Norwegian: Bokmål: danske (nb) m. Nynorsk: danske (nn) m. Polish: Duńczyk (pl) m., Dunka (pl) f. Portuguese: dinamarquês (pt) m., dinamarquesa (pt) f., danês (pt) m. Russian: датчанин (ru) (datčánin) m., датчанка (ru) (datčánka) f. Scottish Gaelic: Danmhairgeach (gd) m. Slovak: Dán (sk) m., Dánka (sk) f. Slovene: Danec (sl) m., Danka (sl) f. Spanish: danés (es) Swahili: Mdeni (sw) sg., Wadeni (sw) pl. Swedish: dansk (sv) m., danska (sv) f. Turkish: Dan (tr), Danimarkalı (tr) Volapük: Danänan (vo)

Proper noun

Dane

1. A surname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
   • 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148, 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.

2. 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 1998, ISBN 0517201658, 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.

Anagrams

• Aden
• dean, Dean
• Edna