danir

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Noun

danir m pl

1. the Danes

Declension

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

masculine	plural
	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 (plural daner)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dane
• → Middle English: Dane
  • English: Dane
• → Old Irish: danar
  • Irish: danar
• → Latin: Danī pl

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “danir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive