• IPA^(key):/beɪn/

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• Hyphenation:bane
• Rhymes:-eɪn

FromMiddle Englishbane, fromOld Englishbana, fromProto-West Germanic*banō, fromProto-Germanic*banô (compareOld High Germanbano(“death”),Icelandicbani(“bane, death”)), fromProto-Indo-European*gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of*gʷʰen-(“to strike, to kill”).

bane (countable anduncountable,pluralbanes)

1. A cause ofmisery ordeath.

   Synonyms:undoing,affliction,curse

   Antonym:boon

   thebane 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,page69:

     Money, thoubane 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”, inModern Railways, page556:

     At Barking, previously thebane 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 poisonousplants.
   • 1577, C. Heresbach, B. Googe,Fovre Bookes of Husbandry, page156:

     For my part I would rather counſell you to destroy your Rattes and Miſe with Traps,Banes, or Weeſels.

3. (obsolete) Akiller,murderer, slayer.
4. (obsolete)Destruction;death.
   • 1650, [John Milton], “Intitled to the Prince of Wales”, inΈΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΑΣΤΗΣ[Éikonoklastēs]. […], new (2nd) edition, London:[…] G. Kearsly, […], published1770,→OCLC,pages272–273:

     [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 theirbane, 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. Adisease ofsheep.

   Synonym:rot

bane (third-person singular simple presentbanes,present participlebaning,simple past and past participlebaned)

1. (transitive) Tokill, especially bypoison; to be the poison of.
2. (transitive) To be thebane of.

FromMiddle Englishban(northern dialect), fromOld Englishbān.

bane (pluralbanes)

1. (chieflyScotland)Bone.
   • 1686, "Lyke-Wake Dirge" as printed inThe Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) p. 361:

     The fire will burn thee to the barebane.

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

• Bean,Bena,bean,nabe

Old Norsebani

• IPA^(key):[ˈbæːnə]

bane

1. (archaic orpoetic)bane, person/thing/event thatkills someone or something

• banemand
• banesår

FromMiddle Low Germanbane, fromOld Saxon*bana, fromProto-West Germanic*banu, ultimately fromProto-Germanic*banō.

bane c (singular definitebanen,plural indefinitebaner)

1. track

   Coordinate terms:vej,vejbane,vognbane

2. trajectory

   Coordinate terms:kurs,rute,vej,løb,forløb

   1. (figurative)lifepath

      Synonym:livsbane

3. railway

   Synonym:jernbane

FromMiddle Low Germanbahnen.

bane (imperativeban,infinitiveatbane,present tensebaner,past tensebanede,perfect tensebanet)

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1. (reflexive)bane sig vej(“tomove persistently withdifficulty orforce”)
2. bane vej orbane vejen(“to pave the way”)

• “bane” inDen Danske Ordbog

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bane

1. (dated or formal)singularpresentsubjunctive ofbanen

bane

1. inflection ofbanir:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

bane

1. Rōmaji transcription ofばね

bane

1. vocativesingular ofbanus

FromOld Irishbán, fromProto-Celtic*bānos(“white”).

bane (pluralbaney,comparativebaney)

1. white,blank,pallid

   Ercabbylbane va mee. ―My mount was a white horse.

   Hainkdaahbane ynaggle er. ―He blanched with fear.

2. fair,blonde

   ShenIlliamBane. ―That's fair-haired William.

3. fallow

   Faag ymagherbane. ―Leave the field lea.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bane”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

FromOld Dutch*bana, fromProto-West Germanic*banu, fromProto-Germanic*banō.

bāne f

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

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

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

FromOld Dutch*bano, fromProto-West Germanic*banō, fromProto-Germanic*banô.

bāne f orm

1. harm,pain

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

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

Inherited fromOld Englishbana, fromProto-West Germanic*banō, fromProto-Germanic*banô.

• ban,bayn,beone
• bone(West Midland)

• IPA^(key):/ˈbaːn(ə)/
• (West Midlands)IPA^(key):/ˈbɔːn(ə)/,/ˈbɒːn(ə)/

bane (pluralbanes)

1. murderer,slayer
2. bane,destroyer

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

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

bane (pluralbanes)

1. Alternative form ofbon(“bone”)

FromMiddle Low Germanbane, compare withGermanBahn.

bane m (definite singularbanen,indefinite pluralbaner,definite pluralbanene)

1. atrajectory
2. arailway line
3. a sportsfield
4. a racingtrack
5. orbit(of a satellite, including the moon)

• (orbit):omløpsbane

FromOld Norsebani.

bane m (definite singularbanen,indefinite pluralbaner,definite pluralbanene)

1. death(by murder)

FromMiddle Low Germanbane, compare withGermanbahnen.

bane (imperativeban,present tensebaner,passivebanes,simple pastbanaorbanetorbante,past participlebanaorbanetorbant,present participlebanende)

1. topave, as in

   banevei for -pave the way for

• “bane” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromMiddle Low Germanbane, compare withGermanBahn.

bane m orf (definite singularbanenorbana,indefinite pluralbanarorbaner,definite pluralbananeorbanene)

1. atrajectory
2. arailway line
3. a sportsfield
4. a racingtrack
5. orbit(of a satellite, including the moon)

FromOld Norsebani.

bane m (definite singularbanen,indefinite pluralbanar,definite pluralbanane)

1. death(by murder)

FromMiddle Low Germanbane.

• bana

bane (present tensebanar,past tensebana,past participlebana,passive infinitivebanast,present participlebanande,imperativebane/ban)

1. topave, as in

   baneveg for -pave the way for

• “bane” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

bāne

1. dativesingular ofbān

FromProto-West Germanic*baunu, fromProto-Germanic*baunō. Cognates includeOld Englishbēan,Old Saxonbōna andOld 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 ofbanir:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

FromNorthern Middle Englishbane, fromOld Englishbān, fromProto-Germanic*bainą.

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

bane (pluralbanes)

1. (anatomy)bone,limb

As asimplex noun a borrowing fromOld Swedishbani, fromOld Norsebani, fromProto-Germanic*banô, fromProto-Indo-European*gʷʰon-on-, from the o-grade of*gʷʰen-(“to strike, to kill”). Cognate toEnglishbane,Icelandicbani.

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 inSAOB (1899) it is regarded as archaic or literary and mostly used in a few set phrases.

The word survived in the compoundbaneman(“slayer, murderer”), which is attested from the 16th and 17th centuries, and dialectally in the southern Swedish wordhönsbane(“henbane,Hyoscyamus niger”), in standard Swedishbolmört.

• 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]‎^[1]:

     Din egen passionerade själ — se där draken, mot vilken du bör strida, vars eld skall förtära dig och bliva andrasbane, om den ej kväves.

     […]thy own impassioned soul! Behold the dragon with which thou oughtest to contend—whose fire will consume thee, and be thebane of others, if thou do not subject it.

• bane inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bane inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• bena

FromMiddle Englishbane, fromOld Englishbān, fromProto-West Germanic*bain, fromProto-Germanic*bainą.

• IPA^(key):/baːn/

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, published1867,page24