Word Origin Summary

*bana is attested in Old High German. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Bah

  East Central German · inherited from

• Bahn

  German · inherited from

• бан

  Russian · borrowed from

• Danglebahn

  English · derived from

• danglebahn

  English · derived from

• באַן

  YID · derived from

• pån

  Cimbrian · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root