bane

See also: Bane, bañe, bañé, and banë

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beɪn/
  • Hyphenation: bane
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English bane, from Old English bana, 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

bane (countable and uncountable, plural banes)

  1. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
    the bane of my existence
    • Herbert
      Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
  2. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
  3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
  4. (obsolete) destruction; death
    • Milton
      The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane.
  5. A disease of sheep; the rot.
Antonyms
  • (affliction or curse): boon
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bane (plural banes)

  1. (chiefly Scotland) bone

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

bane

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of banen

Japanese

Romanization

bane

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ばね

Manx

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
banevanemane
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “bane” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bāne f

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bāne f, m

  1. harm, pain
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • “bane (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
  • “bane (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English bana, in turn from Proto-Germanic *banô.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːn(ə)/

Noun

bane (plural banes)

  1. murderer, slayer
  2. bane, destroyer

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn

Noun

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bani

Noun

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

  1. death (by murder)

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German bahnen.

Verb

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn

Noun

bane m, 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

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bani

Noun

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

  1. death (by murder)

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German bane

Alternative forms

Verb

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

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

References

Scots

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ben]
  • (Mid Northern Scots) IPA(key): [bin], [bein]

Noun

bane (plural banes)

  1. (anatomy) bone, limb

Derived terms

Yola

Noun

bane

  1. bone

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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