danu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ethnic group of Myanmar.
name
The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.
name
A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.
name
A Hindu primordial goddess who had numerous children.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ဓနု, दनु
Derived Forms
Phrases
Intha-Danu
Dewi Danu
Frequently Paired Words
Intha
Intha-Danu