Dane

See also: dane, daně, dañe, dañé, Däne, and dåne

English

Etymology

From Middle English Dane, from Old Norse Danir. Displaced native Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /deɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophone: deign

Noun

Dane (plural Danes)

1. A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
   • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 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.

2. (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^[1], 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

Derived terms

• Dane County (from the surname)
• Great Dane

Translations

person from Denmark or of Danish descent

• Arabic: دَانِمَارْكِيّ‎ m (danimārkiyy), دَانِمَرْكِيَّة‎ f (danimarkiyya)
• Armenian: դանիացի (hy) (daniacʿi)
• Azerbaijani: danimarkalı
• Basque: daniar
• Belarusian: датча́нін m (datčánin), датча́нка f (datčánka)
• Bengali: দিনেমার (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 (zh), 丹麦人 (zh) (Dānmài-rén)

• Czech: Dán (cs) m, Dánka (cs) f
• Danish: dansker (da) c
• Dutch: Deen (nl) m, Deense (nl) f
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} taanlane (male and female), ^{(please verify)} taanlanna (female)
• 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 (dattıq)
• 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

Proper noun

Dane

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

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, 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.

3. 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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdanɛ/
• Rhymes: -anɛ
• Hyphenation: Da‧ne

Proper noun

Dane

1. vocative singular of Dan

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• Dan

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)/

Noun

Dane (plural Danes)

1. Dane

Descendants

• English: Dane