büne

Middle High German

Etymology

Uncertain. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Germanic *bunī, an alteration of *butmaz (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. Köbler compares to Middle Low German bȫne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈbynə/

Noun

büne f

1. stage
2. scaffolding

Declension

Declension of büne (strong feminine in -e)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	diu	büne	die	büne
genitive	einer	dër	büne	dër	bünen
dative	einer	dër	büne	dën	bünen
accusative	eine	die	büne	die	büne

Descendants

• German: Bühne
  • → Kashubian: bina
  • → Romanian: bină
  • → Serbo-Croatian: bina
• Yiddish: בינע (bine)

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 517
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “büne”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition