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BANA

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
BANA, bona, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§59; §401;
A killer, murderer, manslayer, also applied to the devil; interfector, occisor, homicida, diabolus
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  • Ðam wearþ Weohstán bana

    to whom Weohstan became a murderer,

    • Beo. Th. 5220
    • ;
    • B. 2613
    • :
    • Cd. 144; Th. 180, 3
    • ;
    • Exod. 39
    • .
  • Banena byre

    the son of the murderers,

    • Beo. Th. 4112
    • ;
    • B. 2053
    • .
  • Hie nǽfre his banan folgian noldon

    they never would follow his murderer,

    • Chr. 755; Th. 84, 33, col. 1
    • :
    • L. Ethb. 23; Th. i. 8, 7
    • :
    • L.H.E. 2, 3, 4; Th. i. 28, 1, 5, 7
    • .
  • On banan fæðme

    in the embrace of the murderer, i.e. the devil,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1232
    • ;
    • An. 616
    • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. bano
:
O. Frs. bona
:
O. H. Ger. bano
:
O. Nrs. bani
.]
Derived forms
aldor-bana, bróðor-, dǽd-, ecg-, feorh-, ferhþ-, fugel-, gást-, hand-, múþ-, ord-, rǽd-, súsl-
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v.  bona.
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