# dene
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn
* Homophones: dean, Deane

### Etymology 1

From Middle English dene, from Old English dene.

#### Alternative forms

* dean, den

#### Noun

dene (plural denes)
* (Northumbria) A valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet.

##### Usage notes

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

##### Derived terms

* denehole

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

dene (plural denes)
* a sand dune by the seashore

### Anagrams

* Eden, Ende, deen, eden, ende, need

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdeː.ne/, [ˈd̪eːnɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈde.ne/, [ˈd̪ɛːne]

### Numeral

dēne
* vocative masculine singular of dēnus

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *deno.

### Noun

dēne m
* Dane

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: Deen
* Limburgish: daen

#### Further reading

* “dene”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* dane, den, deyne

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɛːn(ə)/

#### Noun

dene
* valley

##### Descendants

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

##### References

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

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin dēni.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdeːn(ə)/

#### Numeral

dene
* (nonce word) ten

##### References

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

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

dene
* Alternative form of den (“dean”)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

dene
* Alternative form of dynne

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

dene
* Alternative form of deynen (“to disdain”)

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* denu

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈde.ne/

### Noun

dene f
* 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.

#### Declension

Strong i-stem:

#### Descendants

* English: dene

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdʲeːnʲe/

### Verb

dene
* Alternative spelling of déne

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## South Slavey
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɛ̀.nɛ̀(ʔ)]
* Hyphenation: de‧ne

### Noun

dene (stem -dene-)
* man
* person
* husband

#### Usage notes

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

#### Inflection

$^{1)}$ Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. $^{2)}$ Used when the previous condition does not apply.

#### Derived terms

* deneke
* denekéhle
* ɂedené

### References

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

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /de.ˈne/
* Hyphenation: de‧ne

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

dene (definite accusative deneyi, plural deneler)
* (regional) Alternative form of tane

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

dene
* second-person singular imperative of denemek

## West Makian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d̪e.ˈn̪e/

### Pronoun

dene (possessive prefix ti)
* (emphatic) first-person singular pronoun, I here
    dene musti tidadi puni ― I must become a spirit

#### See also

V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun, following standard West Makian vowel harmony.

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics