Danish

Meaning

1. Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.
2. The language of Danes and Denmark.
3. Ellipsis of Danish pastry.
4. Characteristic of someone named Dan.
5. Danes, natives of Denmark.
6. Of or pertaining to Denmark.
7. A male given name.

Etymology / origin

Alteration of Middle English Denish, Dench (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisċ (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz. By surface analysis, Dane + -ish.

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