Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/baunu

This Proto-West Germanic 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.

From Proto-Germanic *baunō.

*baunu f

1. bean

• Old English: bēan, bīen
  • Middle English: bene, beane, beene, beyn, ben, bean
    • English: bean
    • Scots: bein, bene
    • Yola: beanès, beanes, baanès, baanes, banès (plural)
• Old Frisian: bāne
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: buan

  • Saterland Frisian: Boone
  • West Frisian: bean, beane, beanne
• Old Saxon: bōna
  • Middle Low German: bône
    • German Low German: Bohn

      Plautdietsch: Boon

• Old Dutch: *bōna
  • Middle Dutch: bône
    • Dutch: boon
      • Afrikaans: boon
        • → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: bono
      • Negerhollands: bontśi, boontje, boonschi (from the diminutive)
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: bontsi (archaic)
      • → Caribbean Javanese: bontyis (from the diminutive plural)
      • → Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
        • → Petjo: bontjies, boontjies
      • → Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
      • → Papiamentu: bonchi, boontsje (from the diminutive)
      • → Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
        • → Caribbean Hindustani: bongki
    • Limburgish: boean
• Old High German: bōna
  • Middle High German: bōne, pōn
    • Alemannic German: Bone
    • Central Franconian: Bunn
      • Hunsrik: Bohn
      • Luxembourgish: Boun
    • East Central German: Bunn
    • German: Bohne
    • Rhine Franconian: Bohn
      • Frankfurterisch:
      • Pennsylvania German: Bohn, Buhn