Danu
The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a…The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.
Meaning
3 sensesThe language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.
(Irish)A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.
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.
(Hinduism)A Hindu primordial goddess who had numerous children.
Origin
Borrowed from Burmese ဓနု (dha.nu.). Learned borrowing from Old Irish, from a reconstructBorrowed from Burmese ဓနု (dha.nu.).
Learned borrowing from Old Irish, from a reconstructed nominative form of the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand).
Borrowed from Sanskrit दनु (danu).
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