baun

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

• IPA^(key): /pøyːn/
• Rhymes: -øyːn

baun f (genitive singular baunar, nominative plural baunir)

1. bean, pea

• baunagras (sea pea, Lathyrus japonicus)
• baunir (lentil soup)
• ekki baun, ekki baun í bala (not at all, not a whit)

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).

baun f (genitive baunar, plural baunir)

1. bean

• Icelandic: baun
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bauna (added -a under Middle Low German influence)
• Norwegian: (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)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bønne
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: bønne
  • → Faroese: bøn, bøna
• → Middle Irish: pónair
  • Irish: pónaire
  • Manx: poanrey
  • Scottish Gaelic: pònair

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

Borrowed from Irish bán.

baun

1. white
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2:

     An a priesth o parieshe on his garrane baun,

     The priest of the parish on his white pony,

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 94