Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/banъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From earlier *bojan- (compare Byzantine Greek βοάνος (boános), attested in the 10th century, and Proto-Mongolic *bayan (“rich”) which is also borrowed from Turkic), a borrowing from a Turkic language, probably from Pannonian Avar bajan (“ruler of the horde”), the title of the Avars' khagan misinterpreted as a name (compare similar development in *voďь from *voditi (“to lead”)), from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás. See here for detailed discussion.
Noun
*bãnъ m[1]
- (South Slavic) master, ruler, lord, ban (title)
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *bãnъ | *bānà | *bānì |
| genitive | *bānà | *bānù | *bãnъ |
| dative | *bānù | *bānòma | *bānòmъ |
| accusative | *bãnъ | *bānà | *bānỳ |
| instrumental | *bānъ̀mь, *bānòmь* | *bānòma | *bãny |
| locative | *bāně̀ | *bānù | *bãněxъ |
| vocative | *bane | *bānà | *bānì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *banьjь (“of or pertaining to a ban”)
Related terms
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- → Romanian: ban (“money”)
Further reading
- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Proto-Slavic/banъ”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 123
- Skok, Petar (1971) “Proto-Slavic/banъ”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 104
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bēǯu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill