Where does dancen come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

dancen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Holly and his merry men, they dancen and they sing; Ivy and her maidens, they weepen and they wring."
"Whereto they dauncen eche one with his mayd."
"Here to my pipe they dancen on a row:"

From Middle English dauncen, equivalent to dance + -en.

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