dene

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dene"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophones: dean, Deane

Etymology 1

From Middle English dene, from Old English dene.

Alternative forms

• dean, den

Noun

dene (plural denes)

1. (Northumbria) A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet.

Usage notes

This, or perhaps Old English dene, is found elsewhere in placenames, particularly in southern England, including Dene Park in Tonbridge, Kent, The Dene in Southwater, Sussex, Deepdene in Dorking, Surrey, The Dene in Alresford, Hampshire, Dene Hollow in south Birmingham, Denefield in Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, and Primrose Dene in Knottingley, Yorkshire

Derived terms

• denehole

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to Middle Low German düne (“dune”).

Noun

dene (plural denes)

1. a sand dune by the seashore

Anagrams

• Eden, Ende, deen, eden, ende, need

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdeː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.ne]

Numeral

dēne

1. vocative masculine singular of dēnus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *deno.

Noun

dēne m

1. Dane

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Deen
• Limburgish: daen

Further reading

• “dene”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English dene; possibly originally the same word as den (“den”).

Alternative forms

• dane, den, deyne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛːn(ə)/

Noun

dene

1. valley

Descendants

• English: dene, dean, Deane
• Scots: den (conflated with den)

References

• “den, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin dēni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːn(ə)/

Numeral

dene

1. (nonce word) ten

References

• “dẹ̄ne, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

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Noun

dene

1. alternative form of den (“dean”)

Etymology 4

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Noun

dene

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Etymology 5

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Noun

dene

1. (East Anglia, West Midland) alternative form of dyne

Verb

dene

1. alternative form of deynen (“to disdain”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• denu

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *danją, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“low ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.ne/

Noun

dene f

1. valley
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Another Vision"

     Þā becōmon wit tō ānre dene sēo wæs ormǣtlīċe dēop and wīd.

     Then we reached a valley that was enormously deep and wide.

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	dene	dene, dena
accusative	dene	dene, dena
genitive	dene	dena
dative	dene	denum

Descendants

• English: dene

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̠ʲeː.ne/

Verb

dene

1. alternative spelling of déne

Mutation

Mutation of dene

radical	lenition	nasalization
dene	dene pronounced with /ðʲ-/	ndene

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *dəneˑ. Cognates include Navajo diné and Dogrib done.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛ̀.nɛ̀(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: de‧ne

Noun

dene (stem -dene-)

1. man
2. person
3. husband

Usage notes

• People of Slavey ethnicity are simply called dene (literally "human"). When specification is needed, denekéhle (literally “true human”) is used.

Inflection

Possessive inflection of dene (-deneé)

		singular	plural
1st person		sedeneé	naxedeneé
2nd person		nedeneé
3rd person	1)	—	gideneé
	2)	medeneé	godeneé
4th person		yedeneé
reflexive	sp.	ɂededeneé	kededeneé
	unsp.	dedeneé
reciprocal		—	ɂełedeneé
indefinite		ɂedeneé
areal		godeneé

¹⁾ Used when the subject is a group of human beings
and the object is singular.
²⁾ Used when the previous condition does not apply.

Derived terms

• deneke
• denekéhle
• ɂedené

References

• Keren Rice (1989), A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈne/
• Hyphenation: de‧ne

Etymology 1

Noun

dene (definite accusative deneyi, plural deneler)

1. (regional) alternative form of tane

Etymology 2

Verb

dene

1. second-person singular imperative of denemek

West Makian

Etymology

From de (“I”) +‎ ne (“this”). Compare dema.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪e.ˈn̪e/

Pronoun

dene (possessive prefix ti)

1. (emphatic) first-person singular pronoun, I here

   dene musti tidadi puni ― I must become a spirit

See also

West Makian personal pronouns

		independent	possessive prefix
1st person singular		de	ti
2nd person singular		ni	ni
3rd person singular		me	mVan., dVinan.
1st person plural	inclusive	ene	nV
	exclusive	imi	mi
2nd person plural		ini	fi
3rd person plural		eme	di

V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun,
following standard West Makian vowel harmony.

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics