büne

Middle High German

Etymology

Uncertain. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *bunī, an alteration of *butmaz (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. Köbler compares to Middle Low German bȫne.

Noun

büne (f)

1. stage
2. scaffolding

Descendants

• German: Bühne
  • → Kashubian: bina
  • → Romanian: bină
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bina
• Yiddish: בינע (bine)

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 517, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 517
• "büne" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)