*bhā- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to speak, tell, say." Ban the bomb as a slogan of the nuclear disarmament movement is from 1955. Banned in Boston dates from 1920s, in allusion to the excessive zeal and power of that city's Watch and Ward Society. The Germanic root, borrowed in Latin and French, has been productive: banal, bandit, contraband, etc. The sense evolution in Germanic was from "speak" to "proclaim a threat" to (in Norse, German, etc.) "to curse, anathematize." as "to prohibit " these senses likely are via the Old Norse cognate banna "to curse, prohibit," and probably in part from Old French banir "to summon, banish" (see banish) and was a borrowing from Germanic. as "to curse, condemn, pronounce a curse upon " from late 14c. Old English bannan "to summon, command, proclaim," from Proto-Germanic *bannan "to speak publicly" (used in reference to various sorts of proclamations), "command summon outlaw, forbid" (source also of Old Frisian bonna "to order, command, proclaim," Old High German bannan "to command or forbid under threat of punishment," German bannen "banish, expel, curse"), apparently a Germanic specialization from a suffixed form of PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (source also of Old Irish bann "law," Armenian ban "word").įrom mid-12c.
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