Where does “banus” come from?

banus (Latin) comes from Serbo-Croatian bȃn, from Proto-Slavic banъ, from Proto-Slavic bojan-.

banus (Latin): ban, proprietor of a banat

Definitions

  1. ban, proprietor of a banat

Ancestry of “banus”, step by step

banus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Serbo-Croatian bȃn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatianbȃnban (title)
2Proto-Slavicbanъmaster, ruler, lord, ban
3Proto-Slavicbojan-

via Hungarian bán

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianbánto mind, to object to, to be bothered by; to...
2Old Hungarianban

Words derived from “banus

Every word from Proto-Slavic bojan-