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BenEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗benEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *bōjana Proto-Indo-European *-nis Proto-Germanic *-niz Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-nis Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-ni-s Proto-Germanic *bōniz Proto-West Germanic *bōni Old English bēn Middle English ben, beneder. English ben From Middle English ben, bene, from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, favor, compulsory service”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōni, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say”). Related to ban. More at boon.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗benEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English ben, bene, variation of bin, binne (“within”), from Old English binnan (“within, in, inside of, into”), equivalent to be- + in.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗benEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English been, from Old French and Medieval Latin, probably from a North African pronunciation of Arabic بَان (bān, “ben tree”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗benEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Arabic بِن (bin) and Hebrew בן (ben, “son”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗benEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Borrowed from Scots ben, benn, from Scottish Gaelic beinn.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗benEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
c. 16th century. Probably from Latin bene or Italian bene.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗benEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text
Shortening.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- BenEnglish · e-37683-2644
Ben, ben, n. a mountain peak. [Gael. beann.]
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Ben, ben, prep. and adv. in toward the inner apartment of a house.—n. the inner apartment of a house, as opposed to the But or kitchen through which one must generally pass first.—To be far ben with one, to be on terms o
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