Dane

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

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

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.
   • 1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford‎, 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.

• (person from Denmark): Danish

• Dane County (from the surname)
• Great Dane

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, 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.

• Aden, Dean, Dena, Edna, Enda, aden-, ande, dean, nade

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

Dane

1. vocative singular of Dan

• Dan

From Old Norse Danir, in turn from Proto-Germanic *daniz. Displaced native Old English Dene.

• IPA^(key): /daːn(ə)/

Dane (plural Danes)

1. Dane

• English: Dane