köken: From Middle High German bant, from Old High German bant, from Proto-West Germanic *band n or m, from Proto-Germanic *bandą ~ *bandaz (“band, bond”), derived from *bindaną (“to bind”). The noun was neuter in most of High German, but masculine in Low German (see Middle Low German bant m) and parts of West Central German. The lexicalisation of this northern usage in the sense “volume” dates from the…
a horizontal moulded projection which crowns or finishes a building or some part of a building or runs round the wall of a room; cornice · cliff road, mountain road, corniche · ledge
shelf (flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc.) · synonym of hyllykkö (“rack, shelf, an article of furniture with one or more shelves”)