тон

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Bulgarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from French ton, from Latin tonus; ultimately from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos).

Noun

тон (tonm

  1. (music) tone, pitch
  2. tone (of voice)
  3. tone, hue
  4. (figurative) heartbeat
  5. (figurative) manners, form
    лош тонloš tonbad manners, bad form
Declension

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from French tonne.

Noun

тон (tonm

  1. tonne, metric ton (1000 kilograms)
Declension

Etymology 3

Probably borrowed from French thon.

Noun

тон (tonm

  1. tuna
Declension

Dungan

Etymology

Cognate of Mandarin Chinese (táng)

Noun

тон (ton)

  1. sugar

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *ton, perhaps from Proto-Uralic *tinä. Cognates include Moksha тон (ton), Finnish sinä, Skolt Sami ton, Northern Sami don, Western Mari тӹнь (tÿń), Udmurt тон (ton), Komi-Zyrian тэ (te), Hungarian te.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

тон (ton)

  1. (second person singular) you

Declension

Declension of тон (ton)
singular plural
nominative тон (ton) тынь (tiń)
genitive тонь (toń) тынк (tink)
dative тонеть (tońeť), теть (ťeť) тыненк (tińenk), тенк (ťenk)
ablative тондеть (tonďeť) тынденк (tinďenk)
inessive тоньсэть (tońseť) тыньсэнк (tińsenk)
elative тоньстэть (toństeť) тыньстэнк (tiństenk)
illative тоньзэть (tońzeť) тыньзэнк (tińzenk)
prolative тоньгат (tońgat) тыньганк (tińgank)
translative тоньксэть (tońkseť) тыньксэнк (tińksenk)
abessive тонтеметь (tonťemeť) тынтеменк (tinťemenk)
comparative тоньшкат (tońškat) тыньшканк (tińškank)

See also

Erzya personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person мон (mon) минь (miń)
2nd person тон (ton) тынь (tiń)
3rd person сон (son) сынь (siń)

References

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic تون
Cyrillic тон
Latin ton

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tōn.

Noun

тон (ton)

  1. fur coat

Declension

Kumyk

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tōn.

Noun

тон (ton)

  1. fur coat

Kyrgyz

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tōn.

Noun

тон (ton) (Arabic spelling تون)

  1. fur coat

Declension

Macedonian

Pronunciation

Noun

тон (tonm (relational adjective тонски or тонален)

  1. tone, pitch

Declension

Noun

тон (tonm

  1. tonne

Declension

Moksha

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *ton, perhaps from Proto-Uralic *tinä. Cognates include Erzya тон (ton), Finnish sinä, Skolt Sami ton, Northern Sami don, Western Mari тӹнь (tÿń), Komi-Zyrian тэ (te), Udmurt тон (ton), Hungarian te, Nganasan (tannaŋ), Northern Selkup тан (tan).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

тон (ton)

  1. (second person singular) you

Declension

The meaning of the missing cases is conveyed by the personal pronoun in genitive and the relevant postposition, for example, монь инксон (moń inkson, because of me) for causative.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ тон (ton) in Álgu-tietokanta, Kotimaisten kielten keskus

Further reading

  • Indefinite and definite paradigms of тон (ton) in O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik , Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 19

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos); cf. French ton. See also то́нус (tónus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -on

Noun

тон (tonm inan (genitive то́на, nominative plural то́ны, genitive plural тоно́в or то́нов) (music)
тон (tonm inan (genitive то́на, nominative plural тона́, genitive plural тоно́в) (color)

  1. (music) tone, plural: то́ны (tóny)
  2. (linguistics) tone, plural: то́ны (tóny)
  3. (of a color) tone, shade, plural: тона́ (toná)
  4. intonation
  5. (physiology) muscle tone

Declension

music:

color:

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Noun

то̑н m (Latin spelling tȏn)

  1. tone

Declension

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tōn. Cognates with Kazakh тон (ton), Kyrgyz тон (ton), Crimean Tatar don (pants), Kumyk тон (ton), Turkish don, Khakas тон (ton), Shor тон, Western Yugur ton, etc.

Noun

тон (ton)

  1. fur coat

Udmurt

Etymology

From Proto-Permic *tɛn, from Proto-Uralic *tinä. Cognates include Erzya тон (ton) and Kildin Sami то̄нн (tōnn).

Permic cognates include Komi-Zyrian тэ (te) and Komi-Permyak тэ (te).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

тон (ton)

  1. (second person singular personal pronoun) you, thou
    кытын тон улӥськод?kytyn ton uliśkod?where do you live?

Related terms

References

  • L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “тон”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian dictionary], Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 648
  • Yrjö Wichmann, Toivo Emil Uotila (1987) Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz [Votyak Vocabulary] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 265