Where does “banda” come from?

banda (Galician) comes from Old French bande, from Frankish binda, from Proto-Indo-European bʰendʰ- — to bind; bond.

banda (Galician): band, strip; bank; bend

Definitions

  1. band, strip; bank; bend

Ancestry of “banda”, step by step

banda traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French bande

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbandeband
2Frankishbindajoin, link
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰendʰ-to bind; bond

via Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐍉

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Gothic𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐍉sign, token

Words derived from “banda

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰendʰ-Every word from Frankish bindaEvery word from Old French bande
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