Where does “dans” come from?

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

dans (Norwegian Nynorsk): a dance; imperative of dansa

Definitions

  1. a dance; imperative of dansa

Ancestry of “dans”, step by step

dans traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French dance

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchdancedance
2Old Frenchdancierto dance
3Vulgar 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 →Every word from Old French dance →