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sona

See also: -sona, Sona, SONA, sõna, soña, Soňa, sonà, and sõnā

English

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Noun

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sona (plural sonas)

  1. (fandom slang) Clipping of fursona.
    • 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:
      Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.

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Atong (India)

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Etymology

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From Bengali সোনা (śōna) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).

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sona (Bengali script সোনা)

  1. gold

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Catalan

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sona

  1. inflection of sonar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

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Etymology

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From English zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

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  • Hyphenation: so‧na

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sona

  1. a zone; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

Chuukese

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sona

  1. (intransitive) to steal

Crimean Tatar

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Noun

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sona (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. wasp

Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).

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Noun

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sona f (plural sonas)

  1. rumor; word of mouth
  2. fame; reputation

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Icelandic

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Noun

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sona

  1. indefinite genitive plural of sonur

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”).

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Adjective

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sona

  1. happy

Declension

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Declension of sona
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative sona shona sona;
shona2
vocative shona sona
genitive sona sona sona
dative sona;
shona1 		shona sona;
shona2
Comparative níos sona
Superlative is sona

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of sona
radical lenition eclipsis
sona shona
after an, tsona 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 177, page 90
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91

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Italian

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Verb

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sona

  1. inflection of sonare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Javanese

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Romanization

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sona

  1. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦤ

Latin

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Verb

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sonā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sonō

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Lower Sorbian

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sona

  1. inflection of son:
    1. genitive/accusative singular
    2. nominative dual

Northern Ndebele

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

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soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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sona m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of sone

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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sona f

  1. definite singular of sone

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *sānō. Related to Old Norse senn, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns).

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sōna

  1. immediately, straightaway
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"
      Hwæt ða nicostratus wearð swiðe afyrht þa ða he þæt wundor ge-seah on his wife gedon and feol adune sona to sebastianes fotum...
      Then Nicostratus was greatly afraid, when he saw the miracle wrought on his wife, and immediately fell down at Sebastian's feet,...

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  • English: soon

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

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Adjective

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sona

  1. happy, fortunate

Usage notes

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  • The adjectives sona and dona represent a pattern in Old Irish where words in s and so represent happy, good luck, positive denotations and words in d and do represent sad, bad luck, or negative denotations.

Descendants

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Mutation

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Mutation of sona
radical lenition nasalization
sona ṡona unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Norse

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Noun

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sona

  1. genitive plural of sonr

Phuthi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

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soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sognāwos (“well grown”).

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Adjective

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sona

  1. happy
    Tha mi cho sona ri bròig! ― I’m as happy as a shoe!
  2. fortunate, lucky

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Mutation

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Mutation of sona
radical lenition
sona shona
after "an", t-sona

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Southern Ndebele

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

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soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Swazi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nguni *soná.

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soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Swedish

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Verb

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sona (present sonar, preterite sonade, supine sonat, imperative sona)

  1. to atone (to make reparation for a crime or the like)
  2. (by extension) to pay (face consequences)
    Han ska få sona sina brott!
    He will pay for his crimes!

Conjugation

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Conjugation of sona (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive sona sonas
Supine sonat sonats
Imperative sona —
Imper. plural1 sonen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative sonar sonade sonas sonades
Ind. plural1 sona sonade sonas sonades
Subjunctive2 sone sonade sones sonades
Participles
Present participle sonande
Past participle sonad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
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Anagrams

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Tetum

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.

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sona

  1. to fry

Etymology 2

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Maybe the same as above.

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sona

  1. to puncture, to pierce
  2. to stab

Turkish

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Noun

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sona

  1. dative singular of son

Volapük

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Noun

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sona

  1. genitive singular of son

Xhosa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

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soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Zulu

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nguni *soná.

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Pronoun

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soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

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Stem -so, poss. stem -só
Full form soná
Locative kúso
Full form soná
Locative kúso
Copulative yíso
Possessive forms
Modifier Substantive
Class 1 wâso ówâso
Class 2 bâso ábâso
Class 3 wâso ówâso
Class 4 yâso éyâso
Class 5 lâso élâso
Class 6 âso áwâso
Class 7 sâso ésâso
Class 8 zâso ézâso
Class 9 yâso éyâso
Class 10 zâso ézâso
Class 11 lwâso ólwâso
Class 14 bâso óbâso
Class 15 kwâso ókwâso
Class 17 kwâso ókwâso

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