Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/baunō

This Proto-Germanic 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-Germanic

Etymology

Usually assumed to be from earlier *babnō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”), though this has been disputed.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɑu̯.nɔː/

Noun

*baunō f

bean

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *baunō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*baunō	*baunôz
vocative	*baunō	*baunôz
accusative	*baunǭ	*baunōz
genitive	*baunōz	*baunǫ̂
dative	*baunōi	*baunōmaz
instrumental	*baunō	*baunōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *baunu
- Old English: bēan, bīen
  - Middle English: bene, beane, beene, beyn, ben, bean
    - English: bean
    - Scots: bein, bene
    - Yola: beanès, beanes, baanès, baanes, banès (plural)
- Old Frisian: bāne
  - North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: buan
  - Saterland Frisian: Boone
  - West Frisian: bean, beane, beanne
- Old Saxon: bōna
  - Middle Low German: bône
    - German Low German: Bohn
      Plautdietsch: Boon
    - → Westrobothnian: bø̂n
- Old Dutch: *bōna
  - Middle Dutch: bône
    - Dutch: boon
      - Afrikaans: boon
        → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
      - Berbice Creole Dutch: bono
      - Negerhollands: bontśi, boontje, boonschi (from the diminutive)
        → Virgin Islands Creole: bontsi (archaic)
      - → Caribbean Javanese: bontyis (from the diminutive plural)
      - → Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
        → Petjo: bontjies, boontjies
      - → Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
      - → Papiamentu: bonchi, boontsje (from the diminutive)
      - → Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
        → Caribbean Hindustani: bongki
    - Limburgish: boean
- Old High German: bōna
  - Middle High German: bōne
    - Alemannic German: Bone
    - Central Franconian: Bunn, Buhn, Bohn
      Hunsrik: Bohn
      Luxembourgish: Boun
    - German: Bohne
    - Rhine Franconian: Bohn
      Frankfurterisch: [b̥õːn]
      Pennsylvania German: Bohn, Buhn
Old Norse: baun
- Icelandic: baun
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bauna (added -a under Middle Low German influence)
- Norwegian: (dialectal) bogna(aun > ogn)
- Old Swedish: bø̄n, bø̄na
  - Swedish: böna (added -a under Middle Low German influence)
- Danish: bønne (added -e under Middle Low German influence)
  - Norwegian Bokmål: bønne
    - → Norwegian Nynorsk: bønne
  - → Faroese: bøn, bøna
- → Middle Irish: pónair
  - Irish: pónaire
  - Manx: poanrey
  - Scottish Gaelic: pònair

References

Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*ƀaunō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 39

[1] Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*ƀaunō”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 39