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banc.

bank (financial institution)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/baŋk/
  1. bank (financial institution)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from English bank, from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of mainc.

noun/baŋk/
  1. rising ground, hill, slope

    masculine
  2. bank (in a sea or river, e.g. sandbank, mudbank)

    masculine
  3. bank (of a river or lake)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Middle English banke, from Old English banca, from Proto-Germanic *bankô.

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