bôn
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bon"
Romagnol
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈbõː]
- (Ville Unite):
Adjective
bôn m (feminine bôna, masculine plural bôn, feminine plural bôni) (Ville Unite)
Tày
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *ɓɯnᴬ (“sky; heaven”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨷᩫ᩠ᨶ, Lao ບົນ (bon), Lü ᦥᦳᧃ (bun) or ᦢᦳᧃ (ḃun), Shan ဝူၼ် (wǔun) or မူၼ် (mǔun), Zhuang mbwn, Bouyei mbenl, Saek บึ๋น, Thai บน (bon).
Pronunciation
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [ɓon˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [ɓon˦]
Noun
bôn
- sky
- Synonym: fạ
- Chúa Bôn ― the Lord
- pú bôn ― heavenly lord
- bôn đin ― heaven and earth
- bôn khả fạ khiếc ― be damned (literally, “The sky kills, the sky slashes”)
- Nưa bôn mì me̱ bjooc.
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- Bôn cháu chắng hết đảy.
- Only the Heaven can help.
Derived terms
- hí bôn
- nghiều bôn
- tó bôn
References
- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary][3] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh bon, from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Old Irish bun (“base, bottom”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boːn/
- Rhymes: -oːn
Noun
bôn m (plural bonion or bonau)
- base, bottom
- trunk, stem
- (linguistics) stem
- (mathematics) base
Derived terms
Mutation
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| bôn | fôn | môn | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71