Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/baňa

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology

From Latin baneum (perhaps via a plural banea), variant of balneum (“bath; place for bathing”).

Noun

*bàňa f

1. bath, bathing, bathing place

   Synonym: *kǫpadlьňa

2. dome
3. bulging, domed vessel
4. recess, depression, hollowed place

Declension

Declension of *bàňa (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*bàňa	*bàňi	*bàňę̇
genitive	*bàňę̇	*bàňu	*bàňь
dative	*bàňī	*bàňama	*bàňāmъ
accusative	*bàňǫ	*bàňi	*bàňę̇
instrumental	*bàňējǫ, *bàňǭ*	*bàňama	*bàňāmī
locative	*bàňī	*bàňu	*bàňāsъ
vocative	*bàňe	*bàňi	*bàňę̇

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

• *baňati, *baňiti
• *banъka

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: банꙗ (banja)
    • Belarusian: ба́ня (bánja)
    • Russian: ба́ня (bánja)
      • → English: banya
    • Ukrainian: ба́ня (bánja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: банꙗ (banja)

    Glagolitic: ⰱⰰⱀⱑ (banja)

  • Bulgarian: ба́ня (bánja)
  • Macedonian: бања (banja)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ба̏ња

    Latin script: bȁnja

  • Slovene: bánja (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: báně
    • Czech: báň, báně
  • Kashubian: bania
  • Old Polish: bania
    • Polish: bania
    • Silesian: bania
  • Slovak: baňa
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: banja
    • Lower Sorbian: bańa, banja

• Other:
  • → Hungarian: bánya
  • → Romanian: baie (possibly)

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “баня”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*ban'a”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 151
• Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “*baňa”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 189