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3 meanings: British a valley, esp one that is narrow and wooded dialect, mainly Southern England a sandy stretch of land or.... Click for more definitions.
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1820s. The earliest known use of the word Dene is in the 1820s. OED's earliest evidence for Dene is from 1823, in the writing of J. Franklin. Dene is a borrowing from an Athabaskan language. See etymology.
v. t. e. The Dene people (/ ˈdɛneɪ /) are an Indigenous group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal, subarctic and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languages and it is the common Athabaskan word for "people". [1] The term "Dene" has two uses: Most commonly, "Dene" is used narrowly to refer to the ...
The meaning of DENE is valley. a member of any of the Athabascan-speaking peoples of the interior of Alaska and northwestern Canada
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Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /diːn/ 2. Rhymes: -iːn 3. Homophones: dean, Deane
Etymology 1
From Middle English dene, from Old English dene.
Etymology 2
Perhaps related to Middle Low German düne (“dune”).
Pronunciation
1. (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.ne/, [ˈd̪eːnɛ] 2. (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.ne/, [ˈd̪ɛːne]
Numeral
dēne 1. vocative masculine singular of dēnus
Etymology 1
From Old English dene; possibly originally the same word as den (“den”).
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin dēni.
Alternative forms
1. denu
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *danją, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“low ground”).
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈde.ne/
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈdʲeːnʲe/
Verb
dene 1. Alternative spelling of déne
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan [Term?]. Cognates include Navajo diné and Dogrib done.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): [tɛ̀.nɛ̀(ʔ)] 2. Hyphenation: de‧ne
Noun
dene (stem -dene-) 1. man 2. person 3. husband
Etymology
From de (“I”) + ne (“this”). Compare dema.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /d̪e.ˈn̪e/
Pronoun
dene (possessive prefix ti) 1. (emphatic) first-person singular pronoun, I here 1.1. dene musti tidadi puni ― Imust become a spirit
Define dene. dene synonyms, dene pronunciation, dene translation, English dictionary definition of dene. also Dé·né n. The Athabaskan-speaking peoples of northwest Canada and inland Alaska considered as a group.
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