Reconstruction:Latin/dantiare

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain and highly debated.^[1]^[2]^[3] Perhaps in one way or another from Proto-West Germanic *þansōn. It could instead be related to *þį̄han (“to thrive”), see also Dutch deinen (“to bob up and down”); however, the -a- would remain unexplained.^[4]

Verb

*dantiāre

to dance

Descendants

(Possibly all from Old French.)

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: danzare
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: dançar, dansar
- Old French: dancier, dancer, dauncer, daunser
  - French: danser (see there for further descendants)
  - Gallo: danseu (Ille, Vilaine), daunczae
  - Norman: danser (Jersiais)
  - Picard: danseu (Athois), dinser (Ch'ti)
  - Walloon: dansè (Forrières), danser (Liégeois)
  - → Middle Dutch: dansen (see there for further descendants)
  - → Middle English: dauncen (see there for further descendants)
  - → Middle Low German: danzen
    - → Old Norse: danza (see there for further descendants)
  - → Old Frisian:
    - Saterland Frisian: donsje
    - West Frisian: dûnsje
- Old Occitan: dansar
  - Occitan: dansar, dançar
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: danciar
- Leonese: danzare
- Old Galician-Portuguese: dançar
  - Portuguese: dançar
  - Galician: danzar
- Old Spanish: dançar
  - Spanish: danzar

References

^ “dancer”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
^ Joan Coromines; José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984), “danzar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 425
^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “63”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page *dintjan
^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “dans”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

[1] “dancer”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

[2] Joan Coromines; José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984), “danzar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 425

[3] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “63”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page *dintjan

[4] van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “dans”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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