English

adance

From a- + dance.

A compound of a- + dance

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Vulgar Latin *dantiāre

Anglo-Norman dancier

Middle English dauncen ‘to dance’

English dance

Today it means

adv Dancing.

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