bane

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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.
  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

References[edit]

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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