- buan
- lasging, Irish buan, lasting, fixed, Early Irish buan: "being, during", from *bu, be, Indo-European bhu, be; Lithuanian butinas, being, during, from buti, be; Norse búa, dwell, Gothic bauan, etc. Stokes gives the Gaelic stem as buvano-s, and cfs. Sanskrit bhûvana, existence. Hence buanaich, persevere.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.