bhen-

    bhen-

    English meaning: to hit, wound

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlagen, verwunden”; also von durch den Schlag böser Geister bewirkter Krankheit (avest.; compare to diesem Aberglauben Havers IF. 25, 380 f.)

    Material: Av. bąnayǝn “it makes me sick”, banta- ‘sickens, waste away”; Goth. banja “blow, knock, wound, ulcer”, O.Ice. ben, O.E. benn f., O.S. beni-wunda “wound”; O.Ice. bani m. “death; murderer”, O.E. bana, O.H.G. O.S. bano “killer, murderer”, O.H.G. bano, M.H.G. bane, ban “death, ruin”; perhaps also M.H.G. bane, ban f. and m. “pathway, way, alley” as “* by all means through an wood, forest” or “* a (well-) beaten track, a way used often “; M.Ir. epit f. ‘scythe, pruning knife” from *eks-bhen-tī; Corn. bony “axe”; but Welsh bon-clust ‘slap in the face, box on the ear” contains bon ‘stick”. Av. bata-, if “ ground coarsely, from the grain “, could be related as *bhn̥-to-, but because of the uncertain meaning is only to name with reservatIon.

    References: WP. II 149, Feist 80.