Romagnol

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Etymology

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From Latin bonus (good).

Pronunciation

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  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈbõː]

Adjective

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bôn m (feminine bôna, masculine plural bôn, feminine plural bôni) (Ville Unite)

  1. good

Tày

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Tai *ɓɯnᴬ (sky; heaven). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨷᩫ᩠ᨶ, Lao ບົນ (bon), ᦥᦳᧃ (bun) or ᦢᦳᧃ (ḃun), Shan ဝူၼ် (wǔun) or မူၼ် (mǔun), Zhuang mbwn, Bouyei mbenl, Saek บึ๋น, Thai บน (bon).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bôn

  1. sky
    Synonym: fạ
    Chúa Bônthe Lord
    bônheavenly lord
    bôn đinheaven and earth
    bôn khả fạ khiếcbe damned (literally, “The sky kills, the sky slashes”)
    Nưa bôn mì me̱ bjooc.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Bôn cháu chắng hết đảy.
    Only the Heaven can help.

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From Middle Welsh bon, from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Old Irish bun (base, bottom).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bôn m (plural bonion or bonau)

  1. base, bottom
  2. trunk, stem
  3. (linguistics) stem
  4. (mathematics) base

Mutation

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Mutated forms of bôn
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

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71
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