daunger

Middle English

Alternative forms

• daungeer, daungere
• dawngeer, dawnger, dawngere (especially East Anglia); dangeour (Caxton)
• danger, dangere, donger (especially Northern or North Midland); daynger (Early Scots)

Etymology

From late Anglo-Norman daunger, from an earlier dangier, dongier, from Vulgar Latin *dom(i)niārium. First attested in c. 1225.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dau̯nˈd͡ʒeːr/, /ˈdau̯nd͡ʒər/

Noun

daunger (plural daungers)

1. Power, control, might:
   1. Influence, domination; control over another.
   2. Dominion, authority (of a ruler)
2. Resistance, opposition; the state of being opposed:

   Synonym: resistence

   1. Coyness; disdainful behaviour (often from a lover).
      • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 521-24:

        With daunger oute we al oure chaffare; / Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, / And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: / This knoweth every womman that is wys.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. (rare) Insolence; arrogant or rude behaviour.
3. Danger, peril; the risk of harm.

   Synonym: jupartie

   1. Debt, liability; a financial obligation.
   2. Harm, damage; something that injures or destroys.

      Synonym: damage

4. Romantic frustration or annoyance.

Related terms

• daungerous

Descendants

• English: danger
  • → Esperanto: danĝero
• Middle Scots: danger, dangeir, dainger
  • Scots: danger

References

• “daunǧẹ̄r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “danger, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “danger(e, dawngere, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

Old French

Noun

daunger oblique singular, m (oblique plural daungers, nominative singular daungers, nominative plural daunger)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dangier