dene

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

From Middle English dene, from Old English dene.

• dean, den

dene (plural denes)

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

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

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

dene (plural denes)

1. a sand dune by the seashore

• Eden, Ende, deen, eden, ende, need

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

dēne

1. vocative masculine singular of dēnus

From Old Dutch *deno.

dēne m

1. Dane

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• Dutch: Deen
• Limburgish: daen

• “dene”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

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

• dane, den, deyne

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛːn(ə)/

dene

1. valley

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

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

Borrowed from Latin dēni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːn(ə)/

dene

1. (nonce word) ten

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

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dene

1. alternative form of den (“dean”)

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dene

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dene

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

dene

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

• denu

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.ne/

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.

Strong i-stem:

• English: dene

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲeːnʲe/

dene

1. alternative spelling of déne

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

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

dene (stem -dene-)

1. man
2. person
3. husband

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

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

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

dene (definite accusative deneyi, plural deneler)

1. (regional) alternative form of tane

dene

1. second-person singular imperative of denemek

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

• IPA^(key): /d̪e.ˈn̪e/

dene (possessive prefix ti)

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

   dene musti tidadi puni ― I must become a spirit

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics