Senne

• As a German surname, spelling variant of Senn.
• As a French surname, from Old French sené (“sage, wise”).
• As an Italian surname, spelling variant of Senna, from the placenames Senna Lodigiana and Senna Comasco, both possibly from Etruscan 𐌔𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌀 (semna). Also from senna (“cassia plant”), from Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “plant whose leaves has cathartic properties”).

Senne (plural Sennes)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Senne is the 29334^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 806 individuals. Senne is most common among White (95.29%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Senne”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• nenes, nēnēs

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛnə/

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• Hyphenation: Sen‧ne

Borrowed from Middle Low German Sende. First attested in 804, in 1028 Synatha, Sinethi, and Sinithi. Explained as Proto-Germanic *senaz (“old”) +‎ *-iþō, apparently understood as an ur-leasow. The consonantism is retained in Sende, a settlement now largely part of Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, save a chunk instead found in Sennestadt.

die Senne f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Senne)

1. A landscape between the pass of Bielefeld and Paderborn

Senne n (proper noun, genitive Sennes or (optionally with an article) Senne)

1. a neighbourhood of Senne district, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2. pre-1969 name of Lipperreihe which was until then a municipality, incorporated into Oerlinghausen, Lippe district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Inherited from Middle High German senne, from Old High German senno, from Proto-West Germanic *sannjō (“herdsman, dairyman”), from Vulgar Latin saniō (“herdsman, dairyman”), deemed a borrowing from Celtic languages, the stem preserved in Old Irish sine (“nipple, teat”), reconstructing Proto-Celtic *sɸenyos (“teat, nipple”) corresponding to Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”).

• Senn

Senne m (weak, genitive Sennen, plural Sennen, feminine Sennin)

1. alpine cowherd
   • 1863, Hermann Adalbert Daniel, Handbuch der Geographie. Dritter Theil. Deutschland nach seinen physischen und politischen Verhältnissen, Stuttgart: Friedrich Bruckmann, page 114:

     Der Senne bleibt während der ganzen Weidezeit ununterbrochen bei der Heerde auf der Alp; seine Bedürfnisse werden ihm von Zeit zu Zeit hinauf gebracht und dagegen mitgenommen, was er an Butter und Käse fabricirt hat.

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• “Senne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Senne” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Preuß, Otto (1893) Die Lippischen Flurnamen‎^[1] (in German), Detmold: Verlag der Meyerschen Hofbuchhandlung, page 138