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Macedonian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-он • (-on)
- the definite article "the" in its distal singular form, male gender.
- Човекон те гледа. ― Čovekon te gleda. ― That man (over there) is looking at you.
See also
Mongolian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-он • (-on)
- rounded back vowel harmonic form of -ан (-an)
Russian
Etymology
It has been formed as a suffix since the beginning of the 20th century from опрокидо́н (oprokidón), with simplification from опрокидо́нт (oprokidónt), from опроки́д(ывать) (oprokíd(yvatʹ)) + Ancient Greek -ων (-ōn). It is first found in the works of Nikolai Leskov, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the future, words also appear related to the consumption of alcoholic beverages, for example, выпиво́н (vypivón) and закусо́н (zakusón).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-о́н • (-ón)
- (colloquial) when added to verbs or other parts of speech, produces masculine nouns related in meaning to the original word.
- вы́пить (výpitʹ, “to drink”) + -о́н (-ón) → выпиво́н (vypivón, “drinks, booze, party”) (familiar)
- заки́нуть (zakínutʹ, “to throw”) + -о́н (-ón) → закидо́н (zakidón, “oddity, quirk”) (slang)
- закуси́ть (zakusítʹ, “to bite”) + -о́н (-ón) → закусо́н (zakusón, “snack, bite (to eat)”) (slang)
- (colloquial) when added to nouns, produces stylistically reduced synonyms.
- гра́фика (gráfika, “graphics, graphic art”) + -о́н (-ón) → графо́н (grafón, “computer graphics”) (computer slang)
- му́зыка (múzyka, “music”) + -о́н (-ón) → музо́н (muzón, “music”) (youth slang)
Derived terms