*banō

Runic: ᛒᚨᚾᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈbɑ.nɔː/

noun · feminine · ō-stem

Meanings

  1. a battlefield
  2. a clearing; open space
  3. a cleared way; path
  4. a track

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-éh₂ 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 *banô (‘murderer, killer, slayer; bane, death’) and weak verbs *banjōną (‘to wound, injure’) and *banōną (‘to hit, kill’).

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.banōbanôz
Acc.banǭbanōz
Gen.banōzbanǫ̂
Dat.banōibanōmaz
Inst.banōbanōmiz
Voc.banōbanôz

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Descendants

  • *banu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *bana (Old Dutch)
      • bāne, bāen (Middle Dutch)
        • baan (Limburgish)
  • *banu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *bana (Old Dutch)
      • bāne, bāen (Middle Dutch)
        • baan (Dutch)
          • baan (Afrikaans)
  • *banu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *bane (Old Frisian)
      • Boan (Saterland Frisian)
      • baan (West Frisian)
  • *banu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *bana (Old High German)
      • bane, ban (Middle High German)
        • Båhn (Bavarian)
        • Bahn (German)
        • Bunn (Luxembourgish)
        • באַן (ban) (Yiddish)
  • *banu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *bana (Old Saxon)
      • bāne (Middle Low German)
        • bane (Danish)
        • Bahn, Norwegian bane (Low German)
        • bana (Swedish)

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