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Danu
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Appendix:Variations of "danu"
English
Etymology 1
+ people
Borrowed from en my ဓနု.
Noun
p
An ethnic group of Myanmar.
en 1899 James George Scott; John Percy Hardiman Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, Volume 1, Part 1 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=peY2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22danu%22&dq=%22danu%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNnobv4PCEAxXmamwGHeweBpo4ZBDoAXoECD8QAg 563 Everywhere the Danu wears the turban and jacket of the Burman, but in most cases he prefers the Shan trousers to the Burmese loin-cloth.
Translations
Burmese ethnic group
Burmese: my ဓနု
Karen:
Pa'o Karen: blk ဓနုꩻ
Shan: shn တၼူႉ, shn ထၼူႉ, shn မၢၼ်ႈထၼူႉ
Proper noun
The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.
See also
en Intha
en Intha-Danu
Further reading
Intha-Danu language
Etymology 2
+ (Irish goddess)
en sga -, from a reconstructed nominative form of the genitive sga Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand).
In particular, Danann is attested in the term sga Tuatha Dé Danann, which is typically translated "tribe of Danu" but used as the collective name for certain Irish gods (or, more prosaically, the people of a particular wave of immigration to Ireland, in the traditional history).
The etymology is controversial and has been debated since the 19th century. Some scholars identify Danu with the goddess en Anu, perhaps as a contraction of día Anu ("goddess Anu").
Proper noun
en Irish mythology A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.
en 1897 The Westminster Review, Volume 148: July-December 1897 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5BjxZI909nAC&pg=PA17&dq=%22danu%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjasuzzw-6EAxVTLUQIHWYzDtoQ6AF6BAggEAI#v=onepage&q=%22danu%22&f=false 17 This [battle] appears in Celtic history as that in which the Tuatha dè Danann, the tribes of the goddess Danu fought and conquered the Fir Bolg on Midsummer's Day.
en 1897 W. B. Yeats The Tribes of Danu The New Review, Volume 17: July-December 1897 Heinemann (publisher) William Heinemann https://books.google.com.au/books?id=smQmAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA550&dq=%22danu%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjasuzzw-6EAxVTLUQIHWYzDtoQ6AF6BAgYEAI#v=onepage&q=%22danu%22&f=false 550 The old poets thought that the tribes of the goddess Danu were of a perfect beauty, and the creators of beautiful people and beautiful arts.
1987, Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Ireland's Fairies, C. Smythe, page 52,
She may be the same as Danu, or she may be the same as the Morrigu.
Further reading
Tuatha Dé Danann
Etymology 3
+ (Hinduism)
Borrowed from en sa दनु.
Proper noun
en religion Hinduism A Hindu primordial goddess who had numerous children.
Derived terms
en danava child of Danu
en Dewi Danu Balinese Hindu goddess
Anagrams
en adnu Duan Duna Düna duan
en Ethnonyms Languages Myanmar
Czech
Pronunciation
cs anu 2
cs Da nu
Etymology 1
Proper noun
cs proper noun form
cs Dan dat//loc s
Synonyms
dative and locative of "Dan" cs Danovi
Etymology 2
Proper noun
cs proper noun form
cs Dana acc s
Anagrams
cs duna
cs nuda