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4-letter words (3 found)

BANE,BEAN,NABE,

3-letter words (8 found)

ANE,BAE,BAN,BEN,EAN,NAB,NAE,NEB,

2-letter words (9 found)

AB,AE,AN,BA,BE,EA,EN,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 21 words from bane according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bane

bane abne bnae nbae anbe nabe baen aben bean eban aebn eabn bnea nbea bena ebna neba enba aneb naeb aenb eanb neab enab

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Definitions and meaning of bane

bane

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

bane (countable and uncountable, plural banes)

  1. A cause of misery or death.
    Synonyms: affliction, curse
    Antonym: boon
  2. (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
  3. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
  4. (obsolete) Destruction; death.
  5. A disease of sheep.
    Synonym: rot
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.
    • 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.

References

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

Anagrams

  • Bean, Bena, bean, nabe

Danish

Etymology 1

Old Norse bani

Noun

bane

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bane

  1. track
  2. trajectory

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bane

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

Galician

Verb

bane

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

Japanese

Romanization

bane

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ばね

Latin

Noun

bane

  1. vocative singular of banus

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

See also

References

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

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banu, 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
  • Dutch: baan
    • Afrikaans: baan
    • → Indonesian: ban
  • Limburgish: baan

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bāne f or m

  1. harm, pain
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • 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

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • ban, bayn, beone, bone

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaːn(ə)/

Noun

bane (plural banes)

  1. murderer, slayer
  2. bane, destroyer
Descendants
  • English: bane
  • Scots: bane, baine, bain, bayn, bone

References

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

Etymology 2

Noun

bane (plural banes)

  1. Alternative form of bon

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
  • (orbit): omløpsbane
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

  • “bane” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German bane, compare with German Bahn.

Noun

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)
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

  • bana

Verb

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

References

  • “bane” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaːne/

Noun

bāne f

  1. bean

Descendants

  • North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: buan
  • Saterland Frisian: Boone
  • West Frisian: bean, beane, beanne

References

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

Portuguese

Verb

bane

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

Scots

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bane (plural banes)

  1. (anatomy) bone, limb

Derived terms

Swedish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²bɑːnɛ/

Noun

bane c (indeclinable)

  1. (archaic) cause of someone’s (violent) death; bane

Derived terms

References

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

Anagrams

  • bena

Yola

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bane

  1. bone

References

  • 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

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