-он

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oh" and Appendix:Variations of "on"

Macedonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɔn]

Suffix

-он • (-on)

  1. the definite article "the" in its distal singular form, male gender.
    Човекон те гледа.Čovekon te gleda.That man (over there) is looking at you.

See also

  • Appendix:Macedonian articles

Mongolian

Pronunciation

Suffix

-он • (-on)

  1. rounded back vowel harmonic form of -ан (-an)

Russian

Etymology

It has been formed as a suffix since the beginning of the 20th century from опрокидо́н (oprokidón), with simplification from опрокидо́нт (oprokidónt), from опроки́д(ывать) (oprokíd(yvatʹ)) + Ancient Greek -ων (-ōn). It is first found in the works of Nikolai Leskov, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the future, words also appear related to the consumption of alcoholic beverages, for example, выпиво́н (vypivón) and закусо́н (zakusón).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈon]

Suffix

-о́н • (-ón)

  1. (colloquial) when added to verbs or other parts of speech, produces masculine nouns related in meaning to the original word.
    вы́пить (výpitʹ, to drink) + ‎-о́н (-ón) → ‎выпиво́н (vypivón, drinks, booze, party) (familiar)
    заки́нуть (zakínutʹ, to throw) + ‎-о́н (-ón) → ‎закидо́н (zakidón, oddity, quirk) (slang)
    закуси́ть (zakusítʹ, to bite) + ‎-о́н (-ón) → ‎закусо́н (zakusón, snack, bite (to eat)) (slang)
  2. (colloquial) when added to nouns, produces stylistically reduced synonyms.
    гра́фика (gráfika, graphics, graphic art) + ‎-о́н (-ón) → ‎графо́н (grafón, computer graphics) (computer slang)
    му́зыка (múzyka, music) + ‎-о́н (-ón) → ‎музо́н (muzón, music) (youth slang)

Derived terms