The story
- Late Latin · derived fromdē intus“from within”
- Old French · derived fromdenzein
- Middle English · inherited fromdenisein
- English todaydenizen
From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), whence French dans.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.