Just a fun little cognate I found

So, someone in another thread wondered whether the German "Bahn" has an English cognate, maybe "band".

(Bahn can mean a railway, for a train, but also a course/track/path/piste in general, or even an orbit.)

I looked it up and I find it quite interesting.

Modern German Bahn is from medieval German, "ban", meaning "path". So far, so reasonable.

Which in turn is from Old German "bana", which means literally a wound, or less literally a breach in a forest to build a path.

And "bana" is a cognate to the English... "bane".

From now on I will translate "Eisenbahn" as "Ironbane", just to be funny.

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