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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /deɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

Dane (plural Danes)

1. A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
2. (historical) A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.

Synonyms

• (person from Denmark): Danish

Derived terms

• Great Dane

Translations

person from Denmark or of Danish descent

• Arabic: دانماركي m (danimaarkiy), دانمركية f (danimarkíyya)
• Armenian: դանիացի (hy) (daniacʿi)
• Basque: daniar
• Catalan: danès (ca) m, danesa (ca) f

  Valencian: danés (ca) m, danesa (ca) f

• Cherokee: ᎠᏕᏂ (Adeni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丹麦人 (zh) (Dānmài-rén)

• 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 m
• Finnish: tanskalainen (fi)
• French: Danois (fr) m, Danoise (fr) f
• German: Däne (de) m, Dänin (de) f
• Greek: Δανός (el) m (Danós), Δανή f (Daní)
• Greenlandic: Danskeq (kl)
• Hawaiian: Kenemaka
• Hindi: डेनिश (ḍēniś), डेन (ḍēn)
• Icelandic: Dani (is) m

• Irish: Danar
• Italian: danese (it) m, f
• Japanese: デンマーク人 (Denmāku-jin)
• Khmer: ដាណឺ (daanəɨ)
• Korean: 덴마크 사람 (Denmakeu saram)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: danske (no) m

  Nynorsk: danske (nn) m

• Polish: Duńczyk (pl) m, Dunka (pl) f
• Portuguese: dinamarquês (pt) m, dinamarquesa f, danês m
• Russian: датчанин (ru) m (datčánin), датчанка (ru) f (datčánka)
• Scottish Gaelic: Danmhairgeach m
• Serbo-Croatian: Danac m, Dankinja f
• Slovak: Dán m, Dánka f
• Slovene: Dánec m, Dánka f
• Spanish: danés (es)
• Swahili: Mdeni (sw) sg, Wadeni (sw) pl
• Swedish: dansk (sv) m, danska (sv) f
• Turkish: Dan, 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