dancier

dancier

English

Adjective

dancier

1. comparative form of dancy: more dancy

Anagrams

• adrenic, cairned, carnied, dracine

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Old French

Alternative forms

• dancer, dauncer, daunser

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *danciō (“to dance”).

Verb

dancier

1. to dance
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Puceles carolent et dancent

     Young maidens, singing and dancing

   • circa 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     la reïne por lui atandre;
     ses puceles avoit fet prandre
     totes ansanble por dancier
     et por grant joie comancier.

     The queen, while waiting
     took her maidens
     together to dance
     to start the festivity

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of dancier (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		dancier			avoir dancié
gerund		en dançant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		dançant
past participle		dancié
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	danz	dances	dance	dançons	danciez	dancent
	imperfect	dançoie, danceie, dançoe, dancieve	dançoies, danceies, dançoes, dancieves	dançoit, danceit, dançot, dancieve	danciiens, danciens	danciiez, danciez	dançoient, danceient, dançoent, dancievent
	preterite	dançai	danças	dança	dançames	dançastes	dancierent
	future	dancerai	danceras	dancera	dancerons	danceroiz, dancereiz, dancerez	danceront
	conditional	danceroie, dancereie	danceroies, dancereies	danceroit, dancereit	danceriiens, danceriens	danceriiez, danceriez	danceroient, dancereient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	danz	danz	danzt	dançons	danciez	dancent
	imperfect	dançasse	dançasses	dançast	dancissons, dancissiens	dancissoiz, dancissez, dancissiez	dançassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	dance	—	dançons	danciez	—

Related terms

• dance

Descendants

• Gallo: danseu (Ille, Vilaine), daunczae
• Middle French: danser
  • French: danser
    • Haitian Creole: dans
    • → Romanian: dansa
• Norman: danser (Jersiais)
• Picard: danseu (Athois), dinser (Ch'ti)
• Tourangeau: danciair, berdanciair
• Walloon: dansè (Forrières), danser (Liégeois)
• → Middle Dutch: dansen, danzen
  • Dutch: dansen
  • → Middle High German: tanzen
    • Cimbrian: tåntzan
    • German: tanzen
    • Luxembourgish: danzen
    • Vilamovian: tanca
    • Yiddish: טאַנצן‎ (tantsn)
• → Middle English: daunsen, dancen, dauncen
  • English: dance (see there for further descendants)
• → Saterland Frisian: donsje
• → West Frisian: dûnsje
• → Old Norse: danza
  • Danish: danse
  • Faroese: dansa
  • Icelandic: dansa
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: danse
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: danse
  • Old Swedish: dansa
    • Swedish: dansa