Etymology
1. O.E.
bana "slayer, murderer," from P.Gmc.
*banon, cognate with
*banja- "wound" (cf. O.Fris.
bona "murderer," O.H.G.
bana "murder," Goth.
banja "stroke, wound"), from PIE base
*bhen- "to strike, wound" (cf. Avestan
banta "ill"). Modern sense of "that which causes ruin or woe" is from 1577.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Germanic *banô
4. Proto-West Germanic *banō
5. Old English bana
6. Middle English bane
7. English bane
8. The noun is derived from Middle English bane (“person or thing that destroys life, murderer, slayer; person who destroys the soul; destruction of life, death, doom; poison”), from Old English bana (“person or thing that causes death, murderer”), from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô (“killer, murderer, slayer; death, bane”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to slay, kill; to strike”).
9. The verb is derived from the noun.
10. cognates
11. * Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰 (banja, “wound”)
12. * Old Frisian bona (“death; murder”)
13. * Old Norse bani (Danish bane (“death; murder”), Icelandic bani (“bane, death”), Swedish bane (“death; murder”)), Old Norse ben (“(moral) wound”)
14. * Old English ben, benn (“mortal injury; wound”)
15. * Old High German bano (“death”) (Middle High German ban, bane)
16. * Old Saxon bano (“death; murder”), beni (“mortal injury; wound”) See: Danish '
bane', Swedish '
bane'.
Verbs referencing "bane"
Dari
زدن, Sanskrit
हन्ति.