Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/banъ

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology

From earlier *bojan- (compare Ancient Greek βοάνος (boános), attested in the 10th century), a borrowing from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language, probably from Avar bajan (“ruler of the horde”), the title of the Avars' khagan misinterpreted as a name (compare similar development in *vodzь), from Proto-Turkic *bāj (“rich, noble”). The Turkic word is usually considered a borrowing from an (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language, from the same lexical root whence also Proto-Slavic *bogъ (“god”), but some consider it to be native or possibly Altaic.

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
genitive	*bānà	*bānù	*bãnъ
dative	*bānù	*bānòma	*bānòmъ
accusative	*bãnъ	*bānà	*bānỳ
instrumental	*bānъ̀mь, *bānòmь*	*bānòma	*bãny
locative	*bāně̀	*bānù	*bãněxъ
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 script: ба̑н

    Latin script: bȃn

  • Slovene: bán

Further reading

• Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Proto-Slavic/banъ”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN
• Template:R:sh:Skok1971
• 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