a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis; originally given in honor of a third century bishop of Paris, the patron saint of France · a surname based on the given name
köken: Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).
köken: Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دَكِزْ (däŋiz), from Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ, whence also Hungarian tenger (“sea”). Cognate with Turkish deniz, Tatar диңгез (diñgez), Bashkir диңгеҙ (diñgeź), Kazakh теңіз (teñız), Uyghur دېڭىز (dë'ngiz) Chuvash тинӗс (tinĕs, “sea”), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ (“sea”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (teŋiz, “sea”); Kazakh теңіз (teñız, “sea”), Kyrgyz деңиз (deŋiz, “sea”), Uzbek dengiz (“sea”), Turkmen deňiz (“sea”), Turkish deniz (“sea”), etc.
köken: Borrowed from English Dennis in the 20th century, from Old French Denis, from Latin Dionȳsius, from Ancient Greek Δῐονῡ́σῐος (Dĭonū́sĭos), from Δῐόνῡσος (Dĭónūsos) + -ῐος (-ĭos, “belonging to”), hence meaning follower of Dionysus.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian دَرْیَا (daryā), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dlydʾp̄ /drayāb/, “sea”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎹 (d-r-y /draya/, “ocean, sea”) + Middle Persian ʾp̄ (āb).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *meri, borrowed from some Indo-European language (probably Proto-Balto-Slavic *mári), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
köken: Most likely inherited from Latin maiōrem, accusative singular of Latin maior, through a Common Romanian intermediate *maure, akin to Dalmatian maur. The shift from /au/ to /a/ is caused by syncope. Compare Aromanian mari, Megleno-Romanian mari, and the aforementioned Dalmatian maur. See also Portuguese mor, Logudorese mere and Campidanese meri. This would make the word a doublet of maior and…