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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/banъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From earlier *bojan- (compare Byzantine Greek βοάνος (boános), attested in the 10th century, and Proto-Mongolic *bayan (“rich”) which is also borrowed from Turkic), a borrowing from a Turkic language, probably from Pannonian Avar bajan (“ruler of the horde”), the title of the Avars' khagan misinterpreted as a name (compare similar development in *voďь), from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
*bãnъ m[1]
- (South Slavic) master, ruler, lord, ban (title)
Inflection
Declension of *bãnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *bãnъ | *bānà | *bānì |
| Accusative | *bãnъ | *bānà | *bānỳ |
| Genitive | *bānà | *bānù | *bãnъ |
| Locative | *bāně̀ | *bānù | *bãněxъ |
| Dative | *bānù | *bānòma | *bānòmъ |
| Instrumental | *bānъ̀mь, *bānòmь* | *bānòma | *bãny |
| Vocative | *bane | *bānà | *bānì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *banьjь (“of or pertaining to a ban”)
Related terms
- *bogatъ (“rich, wealthy”)
- *bogъ (“god”)
- *nebogъ (“poor”)
- *ubogъ (“poor”)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: бан (ban)
- Macedonian: бан (ban)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба̑н
- Latin: bȃn
- Slovene: bán
- → Romanian: ban (“money”)
Further reading
- Gluhak, Alemko (1993) Hrvatski etimološki rječnik (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, page 123f
- Skok, Petar (1971) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I, Zagreb: JAZU, page 104
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bēǯu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
References
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “banъ”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 174)”