bhabhā

    bhabhā

    English meaning: bean

    Deutsche Übersetzung: and anklingende words for “Bohne”, under zw. “broad bean”

    Note: compare to Sachlichen Hoops Waldb. 350, 400 f., 464 f., Hehn Kltpfl.8 221, 570, Schrader RL.2 159 f.

    Material: Lat. faba (fal. haba) “ the broad bean “ (in addition the PN Fabius, Fabidius etc and the island Fabüria),

    Note: common Lat. ph- > f- shift Russ. etc bobъ, O.Pruss. babo ds. Probably reduplicated babble-word and as “inflated, bulged pod, tumescence “ related to Gk. φακός m. “lentil”: Alb. bathë f. “broad bean” (*bhak̂ü).

    Note: common Alb. shift -kh > -th also -gh > -dh Also O.Ice. baun, O.E. bēan, O.H.G. bōna “bean” (Baunonia Frisian island by Plinius) have originated probably through dissimilation from *baÞnü to *ƀaunü.

    Note: The assumption of a duplicated Root bhabhü (bha-bhü) seems to be wrong. Common Lat. kʷ > p phonetic mutation corresponds to common Gk. gʷ > b phonetic mutation : Gk. φοῖβος “clean, gleaming”, φοιβάω, φοιβάζω “clean”, ἀφοίβαντος “ smudges “ (*bhoigʷ-o-), ἀφικτός, ἀφικτρός (*bhigʷ-) “impure, unclean”. That means Gk. φακός m. “lentil” and Alb. bathë f. “broad bean” derived from an intermediary root (*bhak̂ʷü) and that one from Root bheigʷ- : “to shine”. Obviously Germanic forms *baÞnü derived from Illyr. *bathna (Alb. bathë f. “ broad bean “); common Alb. nasalization t > nt > n.

    References: WP. II 131, WH. I 436.