Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dani

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain; presumably from Proto-Germanic *danją, possibly cognate with Sanskrit धन्वन् (dhánvan, “desert, dry land, beach”),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *dʰén-w-ō (“flat surface”).^[2] Perhaps also related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“arc; palm”) (whence Old High German tenar (“flat hand, palm”));^[3] however, this is disputed.^[1]

Noun

*dani n^[1]

flat area, floor; smooth surface
pasture for animals, morass; wallowing-hole, slitch
small dale

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*dani
Genitive	*dannjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*dani	*dannju
Accusative	*dani	*dannju
Genitive	*dannjas	*dannjō
Dative	*dannjē	*dannjum
Instrumental	*dannju	*dannjum

Derived terms

*dannjōn (possibly)
- Old English: dennian (“to become slick or slippery”)

Descendants

Old English: denn n; denu f
- Middle English: den; dene
  - English: den; dean
  - Scots: den; dene, deyn
Old Frisian: dann
- Saterland Frisian: Dan
Old Saxon: *danni, *denni
- Middle Low German: danne, denne
  - Low German: Denn
Old Dutch: *denni
- Middle Dutch: denne, den
  - Dutch: denne, den
Old High German: tenni n
- Middle High German: tenne m or n or f
  - Alemannic German: Tenn
  - German: Tenne f
→ Medieval Latin: danea

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*đanraz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 70: “WGmc *đenjan”
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “dhen-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 249
^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Tenne”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 726

[HGE-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*đanraz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 70: “WGmc *đenjan”

[2] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “dhen-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 249

[EWddS-3] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Tenne”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 726

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