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bane

See also: Bane, bañe, bañé, banë, and báně

English edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /beɪn/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Hyphenation: bane
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English bane, from Old English bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô (compare Old High German bano (“death”), Icelandic bani (“bane, death”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”).

Noun edit

bane (countable and uncountable, plural banes)

  1. A cause of misery or death.
    Synonyms: affliction, curse
    Antonym: boon
    the bane of one's existence
    • [1633], George Herbert, “Avarice”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, →OCLC, page 69:
      Money, thou bane of bliſſe, & ſourſe of wo, / Whence com'ſt thou, that thou art ſo freſh and fine? / I know thy parentage is baſe and low: / Man found thee poore and dirtie in a mine.
    • 1961 September, B. Perren, “The Tilbury Line serves industrial North Thameside”, in Modern Railways, page 556:
      At Barking, previously the bane of L.T.S. operating staff, the new works have now simplified the working of traffic from four converging routes in the area.
  2. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
    • 1577, C. Heresbach, B. Googe, Fovre Bookes of Husbandry, page 156:
      For my part I would rather counſell you to destroy your Rattes and Miſe with Traps, Banes, or Weeſels.
  3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
  4. (obsolete) Destruction; death.
    • 1650, [John Milton], “Intitled to the Prince of Wales”, in ΈΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΑΣΤΗΣ [Éikonoklastēs]. […], new (2nd) edition, London: […] G. Kearsly, […], published 1770, →OCLC, pages 272–273:
      [I]f now again intoxicated and moaped with theſe royal, and therefore ſo delicious becauſe royal rudiments of bondate, the cup of deception, ſpiced and tempered to their bane, they ſhould deliver up themſelves to theſe glozing words and illuſions of him, whoſe rage and utmoſt violence they have ſuſtained, and overcome ſo nobly.
  5. A disease of sheep.
    Synonym: rot
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
killer — see killer

Verb edit

bane (third-person singular simple present banes, present participle baning, simple past and past participle baned)

  1. (transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
  2. (transitive) To be the bane of.
Translations edit
to (kill by) poison — see poison

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle English ban (northern dialect), from Old English bān.

Noun edit

bane (plural banes)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) Bone.
    • 1686, "Lyke-Wake Dirge" as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) p. 361:
      The fire will burn thee to the bare bane.

References edit

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • “bane”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams edit

Danish edit

Etymology 1 edit

Old Norse bani

Noun edit

bane

  1. bane, person/thing/event that kills someone or something

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Low German bane, from Old Saxon *bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *banō.

Noun edit

bane

  1. track
  2. trajectory

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

bane

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of banen

Galician edit

Verb edit

bane

  1. inflection of banir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

bane

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ばね

Latin edit

Noun edit

bane

  1. vocative singular of banus

Manx edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish bán, from Proto-Celtic *bānos (“white”).

Adjective edit

bane (plural baney, comparative baney)

  1. white, blank, pallid
    Er cabbyl bane va mee. ― My mount was a white horse.
    Haink daah bane yn aggle er. ― He blanched with fear.
  2. fair, blonde
    Shen Illiam Bane. ― That's fair-haired William.
  3. fallow
    Faag y magher bane. ― Leave the field lea.

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bane vane mane
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also edit

Colors in Manx · daaghyn (layout · text)
     bane      lheeah      doo
             jiarg; feer-yiarg              jiarg-bwee; dhone              bwee; bane-wuigh
                          geayney, glass             
                          gorrym-ghlass, speyr-ghorrym              gorrym
             plooreenagh              jiarg gorrym              jiarg-bane

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Middle Dutch edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Dutch *bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banu, from Proto-Germanic *banō.

Noun edit

bāne f

  1. open field, battlefield
  2. lane, track (for playing balls)
  3. road, way, path
Inflection edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants edit
  • Dutch: baan
    • Afrikaans: baan
    • → Indonesian: ban
  • Limburgish: baan

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Dutch *bano, from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô.

Noun edit

bāne f or m

  1. harm, pain
Inflection edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading edit

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old English bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bane (plural banes)

  1. murderer, slayer
  2. bane, destroyer
Descendants edit

References edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

bane (plural banes)

  1. Alternative form of bon

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn.

Noun edit

bane m (definite singular banen, indefinite plural baner, definite plural banene)

  1. a trajectory
  2. a railway line
  3. a sports field
  4. a racing track
  5. orbit (of a satellite, including the moon)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse bani.

Noun edit

bane m (definite singular banen, indefinite plural baner, definite plural banene)

  1. death (by murder)

Etymology 3 edit

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German bahnen.

Verb edit

bane (imperative ban, present tense baner, passive banes, simple past bana or banet or bante, past participle bana or banet or bant, present participle banende)

  1. to pave, as in
    bane vei for - pave the way for

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn.

Noun edit

bane m or f (definite singular banen or bana, indefinite plural banar or baner, definite plural banane or banene)

  1. a trajectory
  2. a railway line
  3. a sports field
  4. a racing track
  5. orbit (of a satellite, including the moon)
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse bani.

Noun edit

bane m (definite singular banen, indefinite plural banar, definite plural banane)

  1. death (by murder)

Etymology 3 edit

From Middle Low German bane.

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

bane (present tense banar, past tense bana, past participle bana, passive infinitive banast, present participle banande, imperative bane/ban)

  1. to pave, as in
    bane veg for - pave the way for

References edit

Old Frisian edit

 
Bāna.

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō. Cognates include Old English bēan, Old Saxon bōna and Old Dutch *bōna.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bāne f

  1. bean

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

bane

  1. inflection of banir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Scots edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English bane, from Old English bān, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bane (plural banes)

  1. (anatomy) bone, limb

Derived terms edit

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

As a simplex noun a borrowing from Old Swedish bani, from Old Norse bani, from Proto-Germanic *banô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”). Cognate to English bane, Icelandic bani.

The word can be regarded as a reborrowing from Old Swedish mediaeval literature. It is not attested in writing in the 16th and 17th centuries, but was reinforced due to its usage in the mediaeval Swedish country laws, which were in use until the 18th century. During the 17th century its usage is usually accompanied by a definition explaining the meaning. It was revived in the late 17th century due to the resurging interest in the middle ages and the Icelandic sagas, cf. other Icelandic loans from the same era, e.g. idrott, skald, dyrd. Already in SAOB (1899) it is regarded as archaic or literary and mostly used in a few set phrases.

The word survived in the compound baneman (“slayer, murderer”), which is attested from the 16th and 17th centuries, and dialectally in the southern Swedish word hönsbane (“henbane, Hyoscyamus niger”), in standard Swedish bolmört.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bane c (indeclinable)

  1. (archaic) cause of someone’s (violent) death; bane
    • 1830, Fredrika Bremer, translated by Mary Howitt, Familjen H*** [The H— family]‎[1]:
      Din egen passionerade själ — se där draken, mot vilken du bör strida, vars eld skall förtära dig och bliva andras bane, om den ej kväves.
      […]thy own impassioned soul! Behold the dragon with which thou oughtest to contend—whose fire will consume thee, and be the bane of others, if thou do not subject it.

Derived terms edit

References edit

Anagrams edit

Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English bane, from Old English bān, from Proto-West Germanic *bain, from Proto-Germanic *bainą.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bane

  1. bone

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 24
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