Where does “tanz” come from?

tanz (Middle High German) comes from Old French dance, from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.

Ancestry of “tanz”, step by step

tanz traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French dance

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchdancedance
2Old Frenchdancierto dance
3Vulgar Latin*dantiāre—

via Middle Dutch dans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Dutchdans—
2Old Frenchdansedance

Words derived from “tanz”

Every word from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre →Every word from Old French dancier →Every word from Old French dance →