An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Banse

by Friedrich Kluge

Banse, feminine, ‘space in a barn near the threshing-floor,’ from Middle German and Low German; the word is wanting in Middle High German and Old High German. From *bans- arose Anglo-Saxon bôs. English dialectic boose (boosy, ‘cattle-trough’), and Old Icelandic bâss, ‘cow-house.’ The Gothic has bansts, feminine, ‘barn,’ in which the stem has been increased by the derivative -ti-.