Where does “danced” come from?

Danced comes from Middle English dauncen, from Anglo-Norman dancer, ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-European roots related to motion or movement.

danced (English): simple past tense and past participle of dance

Definitions

  1. simple past tense and past participle of dance

Ancestry of “danced”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “danced”

Every word from Old English -ed →