Danuとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Danu pl (plural only)

1. An ethnic group of Myanmar.
   • 1899, James George Scott, John Percy Hardiman, Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States, Volume 1, Part 1, page 563:

     Everywhere the Danu wears the turban and jacket of the Burman, but in most cases he prefers the Shan trousers to the Burmese loin-cloth.

固有名詞

Danu

1. The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.

参考

• Intha
• Intha-Danu

Further reading

• Intha-Danu language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Learned borrowing from Old Irish, from a reconstructed nominative form of the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand).

In particular, Danann is attested in the term Tuatha Dé Danann, which is typically translated "tribe of Danu" but used as the collective name for certain Irish gods (or, more prosaically, the people of a particular wave of immigration to Ireland, in the traditional history).

The etymology is controversial and has been debated since the 19th century. Some scholars identify Danu with the goddess Anu, perhaps as a contraction of día Anu ("goddess Anu").

固有名詞

Danu

1. (Irish mythology) A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.
   • 1897, The Westminster Review, Volume 148: July-December 1897, page 17:

     This [battle] appears in Celtic history as that in which the Tuatha dè Danann, the tribes of the goddess Danu fought and conquered the Fir Bolg on Midsummer's Day.

   • 1897, W. B. Yeats, “The Tribes of Danu”, in The New Review, Volume 17: July-December 1897, William Heinemann, page 550:

     The old poets thought that the tribes of the goddess Danu were of a perfect beauty, and the creators of beautiful people and beautiful arts.

   • 1987, Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Ireland's Fairies, C. Smythe, page 52,

     She may be the same as Danu, or she may be the same as the Morrigu.

Further reading

• Tuatha Dé Danann on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 3

Borrowed from Sanskrit दनु (danu).

固有名詞

Danu

1. (religion, Hinduism) A Hindu primordial goddess who had numerous children.

派生語

• danava (child of Danu)
• Dewi Danu (Balinese Hindu goddess)

アナグラム

• Duan, Duna, Düna, duan