Crossword clues for dene
dene
- Sandy tract by the sea, t
- Narrow wooded valley
- Wooded valley
- Yukon native
- Natives of Nunavut
- English sand hill
- British sand hill
- Bit of sea shore
- Arctic Canadians
- Alaskan Indian
- Western arctic peoples
- Sandy stretch, in England
- Sandy place, in England
- Northern Canadians
- Northern Canadian
- Canadian originals
- Canada's arctic dwellers
- British shore sight
- British beach hill
- British beach feature
- Sandy tract, in England
- Sandy tract, in Britain
- Sandy tract by the sea, to a Brit
- British sandhill
- Jozsef ___, Met basso
- Met basso
- Alaskan group
- Sandy tract in the U.K.
- Basso Jozsef ___
- Canadian Indians
- Sand pile, in Brighton
- Dover sand hill
- Sand hill in Britain
- Sand hill, in England
- Brighton sight
- Low dune, in England
- English coast sight
- PARADISE
- British seaside tract
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bare, sandy tract by the sea," late 13c., of uncertain origin, perhaps connected to dune, but the sense difference is difficult.
"small valley," from Old English denu "valley" (see den).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context UK English) a valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet Etymology 2
n. a sand dune by the seashore
Wikipedia
The Dene people (Dené) are an aboriginal group of First Nations who inhabit the northern boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dené speak Northern Athabaskan languages. Dene is the common Athabaskan word for "people" (Sapir 1915, p. 558). The term "Dene" has two usages. More commonly, it is used narrowly to refer to the Athabaskan speakers of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada, especially including the Chipewyan (Denesuline), Tlicho (Dogrib), Yellowknives (T'atsaot'ine), Slavey (Deh Gah Got'ine or Deh Cho), and Sahtu (the Eastern group in Jeff Leer's classification; part of the Northwestern Canada group in Keren Rice's classification). But it is sometimes also used to refer to all Northern Athabaskan speakers, who are spread in a wide range all across Alaska and northern Canada. Note that Dene never includes the Pacific Coast Athabaskan or Southern Athabaskan speakers in the continental U.S., despite the fact that the term is used to denote the Athabaskan languages as a whole (the Na-Dene language family). The Southern Athabaskan speakers do, however, refer to themselves with similar words: Diné (Navajo) and Indé (Apache).
Alexander Mackenzie described aspects of a number of northern Dene cultures in the late eighteenth century in his journal of his voyage down the Mackenzie River.
A dene, derived from the Old English denu and frequently spelled dean, used to be a common name for a valley, in which sense it is frequently found as a component of English place-names, such as Rottingdean and Ovingdean.
In the English counties of Durham and Northumberland a dene is a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn runs. Many of the incised valleys cut by small streams that flow off the Durham and Northumberland plateau into the North Sea are given the name Dene, as in Castle Eden Dene and Crimdon Dene in Durham and Jesmond Dene in Tyne and Wear.
The Dene are an aboriginal group of First Nations in northern Canada.
Dene may also refer to:
- Dene (valley), a steep-sided valley
- Dene language, the language of the Dene people
- Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne
- River Dene, in Warwickshire, England
Usage examples of "dene".
He kens ye hae dene yer best--or if no yer vera best--for wha daur say that?
Mrs Dene, with the tender pride that made her faultfinding like a caress.
She had birthed every race: Human, Harpies, Dene, Tcheria, Alouea, Windsingers, Calouin, and all the others.
He kens ye hae dene yer best--or if no yer vera best--for wha daur say that?
American tastes from the Denes and sent them in to Gethryn beautifully brown and crisp.
He had passed this fellow on other occasions and presumed that he and his like were the reason why this park, which dropped away steeply to the south down a leafy ravine with cascading stream in the direction of the fish quay, was known as Spittal Dene.