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
Norwegian Bokmål: dane
Old Swedish: dan, dæn
Danish: daner c pl
→ Middle English: Dane
- English: Dane
→ Latin: Danī pl

References

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

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