bane

• IPA^(key): /beɪn/

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• Hyphenation: bane
• Rhymes: -eɪn

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”).

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

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.

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

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.

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

• Bean, Bena, bean, nabe

Old Norse bani

bane

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

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

bane

1. track
2. trajectory

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bane

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

bane

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

bane

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばね

bane

1. vocative singular of banus

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

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.

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bane”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

bāne f

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

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

bāne f or m

1. harm, pain

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bane (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bane (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

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

• ban, bayn, beone, bone

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːn(ə)/

bane (plural banes)

1. murderer, slayer
2. bane, destroyer

• English: bane
• Scots: bane, baine, bain, bayn, bone

• “bāne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

bane (plural banes)

1. Alternative form of bon

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn.

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)

• (orbit): omløpsbane

From Old Norse bani.

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

1. death (by murder)

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German bahnen.

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

• “bane” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn.

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)

From Old Norse bani.

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

1. death (by murder)

From Middle Low German bane.

• bana

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

• “bane” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːne/

bāne f

1. bean

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: buan

• Saterland Frisian: Boone
• West Frisian: bean, beane, beanne

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

bane

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ben]
• (Doric Scots) IPA^(key): [bin], [bein]

bane (plural banes)

1. (anatomy) bone, limb

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.

• IPA^(key): /²bɑːnɛ/

bane c (indeclinable)

1. (archaic) cause of someone’s (violent) death; bane
   • 1830, Fredrika Bremer, translated by Mary Howitt, Familjen H*** [The H— family]‎:

     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.

• bane in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bane in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• bena

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔːn/
• Homophone: bawen

bane

1. bone

• 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