baun

See also: Baun

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse baun, from Proto-Germanic *baunō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pøyːn/
  • Rhymes: -øyːn

Noun

baun f (genitive singular baunar, nominative plural baunir)

  1. bean, pea

Declension
declension of baun
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative baun baunin baunir baunirnar
accusative baun baunina baunir baunirnar
dative baun bauninni baunum baununum
genitive baunar baunarinnar bauna baunanna

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

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Noun

baun (plural baun-baun, first-person possessive baunku, second-person possessive baunmu, third-person possessive baunnya)

  1. wood stack for cassowary egg laying

Further reading

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baunō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Compare Old English bean (English bean), Old Frisian bāne (West Frisian bean), Old Saxon bōna (Low German Bohn), Dutch boon, Old High German bōna (German Bohne).

Noun

baun f (genitive baunar, plural baunir)

  1. bean

Declension
  Declension of baun (strong i-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative baun baunin baunir baunirnar
accusative baun baunina baunir baunirnar
dative baun bauninni baunum baununum
genitive baunar baunarinnar bauna baunanna

Descendants
  • Icelandic: baun
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bauna; (dialectal) bogna (aun > ogn)
  • Old Swedish: bø̄n, bø̄na
    • Swedish: böna (added -a under Middle Low German influence)
  • Danish: bønne (added -e under Middle Low German influence)
  • → Middle Irish: pónair (from the plural baunir)

References
  • “baun”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish bán.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɔːn/

Adjective

baun

  1. white
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:
      An a priesth o parieshe on his garrane baun,
      The priest of the parish on his white pony,

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 94
Colors in Yola · [Term?] (layout · text)
     whit, baun      gry      bhlock, blaak
             reed              yulloureed              yullou, ghou, buee
             *leem green              green              *meente
             blúegreen              *asure              blúe
                          purple              rowse
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