Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/banô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-ō, from *gʷʰen- (“to strike, kill”), though the sound change required from *gʷʰ > *b is controversial.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.nɔːː/

Noun

*banô m

murderer, killer, slayer
bane, death

Inflection

Declension of *banô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*banô	*bananiz
vocative	*banô	*bananiz
accusative	*bananų	*bananunz
genitive	*baniniz	*bananǫ̂
dative	*banini	*banammaz
instrumental	*baninē	*banammiz

Derived terms

*banōną
*brōþurbanô (“brother-slayer, fratricide”)
*fadurbanô (“father-slayer, patricide”)
*werþaną tō banini (“become a slayer; kill”)

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *banō
- Old English: bana, bona
  - Middle English: bane, ban, bayn, beone, bone (West Midland)
    - English: bane
    - Middle Scots: bane, baine, bain, bayn, bone
- Old Frisian: bona
- Old Saxon: bano
  - Middle Low German: bāne
- Old Dutch: *bano
  - Middle Dutch: bāne
- Old High German: bano
  - Middle High German: bane, ban
Old Norse: bani
- Icelandic: bani
- Faroese: bani
- Norn: bani
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bane
- Old Swedish: bani
  - Swedish: bane
- Old Danish: banæ
  - Danish: bane
    - Norwegian Bokmål: bane

References

^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*ƀanōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 36

[1] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*ƀanōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 36

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