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 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 *voditi (“to lead”)), from Proto-Turkic *bāy (“rich, noble”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás. See here for detailed discussion.

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

• → Romanian: ban (“money”)

Further reading

• Gluhak, Alemko (1993), “banъ”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 123
• Skok, Petar (1971), “banъ”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 104