*banô

Runic: ᛒᚨᚾᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈbɑ.nɔːː/

noun · masculine · an-stem

Meanings

  1. murderer, killer, slayer
  2. bane, death

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European n-stem *gʷʰón-ō ~ *gʷʰn̥-n-és, from root *gʷʰen- (‘to strike, slay, kill’). Compare Old Armenian գան (gan, ‘beating’), Ancient Greek φόνος (phónos) (phónos, ‘murder’). Related to nouns *banjo (‘wound’) and *banō (‘battlefield, clearing, open space’) and weak verbs *banjōną (‘to wound, injure’) and *banōną (‘to hit, kill’).

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.banôbananiz
Acc.bananųbananunz
Gen.baninizbananǫ̂
Dat.baninibanammaz
Inst.baninēbanammiz
Voc.banôbananiz

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Descendants

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

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