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Dane
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Appendix:Variations of "dane"
English
Etymology
From en enm Dane, from en non danir or en ang Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from en gem-pro *daniz.
Pronunciation
en /deɪn/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dane.wav Southern England
en eɪn 1
en deign<aa:pane-pain>
Noun
A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
en June 9, 2012 Owen Phillips Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark w:BBC Sport http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18138777 But the Danes remained resolute in defence - largely thanks to a spirited display by captain Daniel Agger - and they went ahead with their first meaningful attack. https://web.archive.org/web/20250909191237/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/18138777
en Sebastian Shukla Denmark has long been Euroskeptic. Donald Trump helped change that w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/europe/denmark-less-euroskeptic-donald-trump-intl-cmd 2025-07-05 As Denmark takes over the presidency of the European Union, Danes are more strongly pro-European than at any time in the past two decades – a shift in sentiment that can at least partly be attributed to US President Donald Trump. https://web.archive.org/web/20250726211742/https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/europe/denmark-less-euroskeptic-donald-trump-intl-cmd
en historical In Anglo-Saxon England, any of the seafaring raiders and settlers who attacked and colonized parts of England from the late 8th century onward; a Viking.
en historical A member of a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern en Sweden.
en The history of Wallingford 1 John Kirby Hedges 1881 170 https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=HfcGAAAAQAAJ 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.
en 1999 Seamus Heaney Beowulf Faber and Faber London 54 I have wrestled the hiltfrom the enemies' hand, avenged the evildone to the Danes; it is what is due.
Synonyms
person from Denmark en Danish, rare en Danishman, dated en Denmarkian
Derived terms
en Daneland Daneman daneweed danewort Danification Danify en Dane County from the surname Great Dane Red Dane
Translations
person from Denmark
Afrikaans: af Deen
Arabic: ar دَانِمَارْكِيّ m danimārkiyy, ar دَانِمَرْكِيَّة f danimarkiyya
Armenian: hy դանիացի
Asturian: ast danés m, ast danesa f
Azerbaijani: az danimarkalı
Basque: eu daniar
Belarusian: be датча́нін m, be датча́нка f
Bengali: bn দিনেমার dinemar
Bulgarian: bg датча́нин m, bg датча́нка f
Catalan: ca danès m, ca danesa f
Valencian: ca danés m, ca danesa f
Chechen: ce датхо
Cherokee: chr ᎠᏕᏂ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 丹麥人 Dānmài-rén
Czech: cs Dán m, cs Dánka f
Danish: da dansker c
Dutch: nl Deen m, nl Deense f
Esperanto: (an ethnic Dane) eo dano, (an inhabitant of Denmark) eo daniano
Estonian: et taanlane male and female, et taanlanna female
Farefare: gur daŋa
Faroese: fo dani m, fo danskari m
Finnish: fi tanskalainen
French: fr Danois m, fr Danoise f
Galician: gl dinamarqués m, gl dinamarquesa f
Georgian: ka დანიელი
German: de Däne m, de Dänin f
Greek: el Δανός m, el Δανή f
Greenlandic: kl danskeq
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug ndinamaykagua
Hawaiian: haw Kenemaka
Hindi: hi डैनिश, hi डेनिश, hi डेन
Hungarian: hu dán
Icelandic: is Dani m
Ido: io Dano c n, io Danulo m, io Danino f
Irish: ga Danar m, ga Danmhargach m
Italian: it danese m f
Japanese: ja デンマーク人 Denmāku-jin
Kazakh: kk даттық
Khmer: km ដាណឺ daanəɨ
Korean: ko 덴마크인, ko 덴마크 사람
Latvian: lv dānis m, lv dāniete f
Lithuanian: lt danas m, lt danė f
Macedonian: mk Данец m, mk Данка f
Māori: mi Teina
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb danske m
Nynorsk: nn danske m
Polish: pl Duńczyk m, pl Dunka f
Portuguese: pt dinamarquês m, pt dinamarquesa f, pt danês m
Romanian: ro danez
Russian: ru датча́нин m, ru датча́нка f
Scottish Gaelic: gd Danmhairgeach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Да́нац m, sh Данкиња f
Latin: sh Dánac m, sh Dankinja f
Slovak: sk Dán m, sk Dánka f
Slovene: sl Dánec m, sl Dánka f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Dan m
Spanish: es danés m, es danesa f
Swahili: sw Mdeni s, sw Wadeni p
Swedish: sv dansk c male, sv danska c female
Tagalog: tl Danes
Turkish: tr Dan, tr Danimarkalı
Ukrainian: uk да́нці p, uk да́нка f, uk да́нець m
Volapük: vo Danänan
Welsh: cy Daniad m
Proper noun
en nicknames for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
en 1913 Harry Leon Wilson Bunker Bean 13 BiblioBazaar, LLC 2008 0554347148 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.
en Dan Heching Eric Dane shares that he has been diagnosed with ALS w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/entertainment/eric-dane-als-diagnosis-wellness 2025-04-10 In “Euphoria,” Dane plays Cal Jacobs, the troubled father to Jacob Elordi’s character in the HBO drama, which is scheduled to begin production on its third season on April 14. https://web.archive.org/web/20250422081114/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/entertainment/eric-dane-als-diagnosis-wellness/
en male surnames, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
en 1977 w:Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds 432–433 Gramercy Books 1998 0517201658 "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.
en river , the River Dane, in co/Cheshire cc/England which joins the River river/Weaver at en Northwich.
Anagrams
en aden Aden Dean Dena Edna Enda Nead aden- ande dean eDNA nade
en Denmark Ethnonyms Germanic tribes Nationalities
Czech
Pronunciation
cs anɛ 2
cs Da ne
Proper noun
cs proper noun form
cs Dan voc s
Middle English
Alternative forms
enm Dan
Etymology
From enm non danir (whether directly or through enm fro Dan) or enm ang Dene, both from enm gem-pro *daniz.
Pronunciation
enm /ˈdaːn(ə)/
Noun
Dane
Descendants
en Dane