Where does “dans” come from?

dans (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Old French dancier, from Vulgar Latin *dantiāre.

dans (Norwegian Bokmål): a dance; dancing; imperative of danse

Definitions

  1. a dance; dancing; imperative of danse

Ancestry of “dans”, step by step

dans traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French dancier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchdancierto dance
2Vulgar Latin*dantiāre—

via Old Norse dans

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norsedans—

Words derived from “dans”

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