Where does “bang” come from?

bang (Swedish) comes from Middle Low German bange.

bang (Swedish): scared, anxious; A sudden percussive noise

Definitions

  1. scared, anxious; A sudden percussive noise

Ancestry of “bang”, step by step

bang traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle Low German bange

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanbange—

via Old Swedish bang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Swedishbang—

Words derived from “bang”

Every word from Middle Low German bange →