dhen-2

    dhen-2

    English meaning: surface of hand/land, etc. (*dry land)

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Fläche der Hand, of Erdbodenes, flaches Brett”

    Note: From Root dhen-1 : “ to run, *flow” derived Root dhen-2 : ‘surface of hand/land, etc. (*dry land)” meaning “arid flat area”.

    Material: O.Ind. dhánuṣ- n., dhánvan- m. n. “ dry land, mainland, beach, dry land, desert “, dhánu-, dhanū́ - f. ‘sandbank, seashore, island”; maybe Alb. (*dhent) det “(* seashore, flat surface of the sea ) sea” [common Alb. n > nt > t phonetic mutation] Gk. θέναρ n. “ palm, sole, also from the surface of the sea or from deepening in the altar to the admission of the offering “, ὀπισθέναρ “ opisthenar, back of the hand “ (*ὀπισθοθέναρ), O.H.G. tenar m., tenra f. (*denarü̆ -), M.H.G. tener m. “flat hand”, Curtius5 255 (samt O.Ind. dhánuṣ-, see below). In addition V.Lat. danea “area” (Reichenauer Gl.), O.H.G. tenni n., M.H.G. tenne m. f. n., Ger. Tenne “ barn floor, threshing floor, flattened loam ground or wooden floor as a threshing place, hallway, ground, place, surface generally “, Dutch denne “area, a pavement of tiles, brick, stone; floored, boarded; n. as subst. a floor, story; a row or layer of vines “; as “ smoothly trodden place good as threshing floor “ can be also understood meeklenb. denn “trodden down place in the grain layer “, M.L.G. denne “lowland, depression” (and “ valley forest “ see below), M.Du. denne “ den of wild animals “ (and “ valley forest “, see below), dan “ waste, from shrubbery surrounded place, place generally, land, scenery “ (and “ valley forest “, s.under), O.E. denn “cave, wild den”, nEng. den “cave, pit, pothole”, oFris. dann(e) “bed, garden bed, garden plot “. About Lith. dẽnis m. “ deck board of a small boat “, Ltv. denis ds. (Gmc. Lw.?) s. Trautmann 51, Mũhlenbach-Endzelin I 455.

    References: WP. I 853.