онъ

From Proto-Turkic *oŋ. Cognate to Khakas оң (oñ), Shor оң (oŋ), Tuvan оң (oñ), Tofa оӈ (oŋ), Western Yugur oŋ (“right, correct”), etc.

онъ • (onʺ)

1. right

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “онъ”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži) , Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN

From Proto-Slavic *onъ.

онъ • (onŭ)

1. he (personal pronoun)
2. that one there, that one yonder

The nominative forms of онъ (onŭ) served as third-person personal pronouns. In all the other cases (and occasionally in the nominative as well), the forms of и (i) were used.

• и (i)
• сь (sĭ)
• тъ (tŭ)
• овъ (ovŭ)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *onъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *anas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énos (“that”). Inflected forms from и (i), from Proto-Slavic *jь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *is, from Proto-Indo-European *ís and Proto-Indo-European *yós.

онъ (onŭ)

1. third-person masculine singular pronoun: he, it
   • 1110s, Hypatian Codex:

     кд(е) есть конь мои егоже бѣхъ поставилъ. кормити и блюсти его. ѡнъ же ре(ч) умерлъ есть

     kd(je) jestĭ konĭ moi jegože běxŭ postavilŭ. kormiti i bljusti jego. onŭ že re(č) umerlŭ jestĭ

     Where is my horse, whom I had ordered to feed and praise? He said: "(the horse) is dead".

• Old Ruthenian: онъ (on), вонъ (von)
  • Belarusian: ён (jon)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: он (on), він (vin)
  • Ukrainian: він (vin)
• Russian: он (on)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *onъ. For further information see Etymology 1.

онъ (onŭ)

1. that, that over there, yonder
   • 1110s, Laurentian Codex:

     Ини же не свѣдуще рекоша. ꙗко кии есть перевозникъ былъ. у кіева бо бѧше перевозъ тогда с оноꙗ стороны днѣ<пр(а)>.

     Ini že ne svědušče rekoša. jako kii jestĭ perevoznikŭ bylŭ. u kijeva bo bęše perevozŭ togda s onoja storony dně<пр(а)>.

     Some unwitting men have said that Kyi was a ferryman, for near Kiev there was a ferry at that time from that side of the Dŭněprŭ.

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• Old Ruthenian: оный (onyj), онъ (on)
  • Ukrainian: о́ний (ónyj) (obsolete)
• Russian: о́ный (ónyj) (obsolete)

• Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2019) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije: Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ.”, in Languages of Slavic Culture‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 597: “онъ (мест.) ― on (mest.)”

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онъ • (on)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of он (on).