dedans French · revision 16716

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 1050, Vie de saint Alexis (dedenz)|origins=la-lat deintus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /də.dɑ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dedans''' (adverb, preposition); '''dedans''' ''m'' (noun, invariable)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''dedenz'', ''dedens'', ''dedans'' from the 12th century.^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fro|de|denz]], the older form of [[dans]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(FEW|3, 31b) The Old French adverb continues [[inh|la-lat|deintus|t=within, inside]], from [[m|la|dē|t=from]] and [[m|la|intus|t=within]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(REW 1935)

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+ Compare [[pcd|dedins]], [[wa|divint]] and [[pro|dedins]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Vie de saint Alexis'' (about 1050) has ''dedenz'' as an adverb, and the ''Chanson de Roland'' (about 1100) as a preposition.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Dans'' was first an adverb, “inside”, but left that use to ''dedans''; as ''dans'' spread as a preposition from the 16th century, ''dedans'' lost its prepositional use (''dedans la chambre''), still common in the 17th century but condemned by Vaugelas in 1647.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) The noun ''le dedens'' appears in 1530, in Palsgrave, parallel to its opposite [[dehors]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ With some verbs it forms popular phrases: ''ficher dedans'' “to deceive; to lock up” (1793), later ''mettre'' or ''foutre dedans'', ''se foutre dedans'' “to get it wrong”, and ''entrer'' or ''rentrer dedans'' “to bash, lay into” (late 19th century).^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) Balzac (1841) has ''donner dedans'' “to be taken in”.^(BHVF)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1050 – ''Dedenz'', adverb, ''Vie de saint Alexis''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1100 – Preposition, ''Chanson de Roland''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1530 – The noun ''le dedens'', Palsgrave.^(TLFi)

+ * 1647 – Vaugelas condemns the prepositional use.^(TLFi)

+ * 1793 – ''Ficher dedans''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * Late 19th century – ''Rentrer dedans''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|inside]], within: ''il n'y a rien dedans'', ''là-dedans'', in there.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''En dedans'', ''au-dedans'': on the inside; inwardly.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(familiar)'' ''Mettre'' (''foutre'') ''quelqu'un dedans'': to fool someone, ''(military)'' to put in the guardhouse, ''rentrer dedans'', to crash into, lay into.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ===Preposition===

+ # ''(archaic)'' Inside, in; now only after another preposition: ''de dedans l'armoire''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # The inside, [[m|en|interior]]: ''le dedans d'une maison''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dans]]

+ * [[dehors]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}