Dane

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

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /deɪn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪn
Homophone: deign

Noun edit

Dane (plural Danes)

A person of Danish descent.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, 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.
A person from Denmark.
(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 edit

(person from Denmark): Danish, (rare) Danishman, (dated) Denmarkian

Derived terms edit

Dane County (from the surname)
Great Dane
Red Dane

Translations edit

person from Denmark or of Danish descent

Afrikaans: Deen (af)
Arabic: دَانِمَارْكِيّ m (danimārkiyy), دَانِمَرْكِيَّة f (danimarkiyya)
Armenian: դանիացի (hy) (daniacʿi)
Azerbaijani: danimarkalı
Basque: daniar
Belarusian: датча́нін m (datčánin), датча́нка f (datčánka)
Bengali: দিনেমার (bn) (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／丹麦人 (zh) (Dānmài-rén)
Czech: Dán (cs) m, Dánka (cs) f
Danish: dansker (da) c
Dutch: Deen (nl) m, Deense (nl) f
Esperanto: (an ethnic Dane) dano (eo), (an inhabitant of Denmark) daniano
Estonian: ^{(please verify)} taanlane (male and female), ^{(please verify)} taanlanna (female)
Farefare: daŋa
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 (dattyq)
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 edit

Dane

A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
- 1913, Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 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.
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, published 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.
A river, the River Dane, in Cheshire, England, which joins the River Weaver at Northwich.