danir

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *daniz (“a Dane”).

Noun

danir m pl

the Danes

Declension

Declension of danir, (strong i-stem, s-genitive, plural only)

masculine	plural
masculine	indefinite	definite
nominative	danir	danirnir
accusative	dani	danina
dative	dǫnum	dǫnunum
genitive	dana	dananna

Descendants

Icelandic: Dani
Faroese: dani
Norwegian Nynorsk: dane, dan
Old Swedish: dan, dæn
- Swedish: dan (plural daner)
Danish: dan, dane
- Norwegian Bokmål: dane
→ Middle English: Dane
- English: Dane
→ Old Irish: danar
- Irish: danar
→ Latin: Danī pl

References

“danir”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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