kon

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "kon"

Translingual

Symbol

kon

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kongo.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Verb

kon

  1. preterite of kan; could

Atikamekw

Noun

kon anim

  1. snow

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən; cognate with Koho kon, Vietnamese con, Khasi khun, Khmer កូន (koun), Mon ကွေန် (kon), Car Nicobarese kūön.

Pronunciation

Noun

kon

  1. child, offspring

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

Conjunction

kon

  1. Alternative form of kun

Breton

Pronunciation

Noun

kon m pl

  1. plural of ki

Mutation

  Mutation of kon  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular ki gi c'hi unchanged
plural kon gon c'hon unchanged

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from konat.

Pronunciation

Noun

kon m inan

  1. (literary) act

Declension

Declension of kon (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative kon kony
genitive konu konů
dative konu konům
accusative kon kony
vocative kone kony
locative konu konech
instrumental konem kony

Further reading

  • kon in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • kon in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔn
  • audio(file)

Verb

kon

  1. singular past indicative of kunnen

Japanese

Romanization

kon

  1. Rōmaji transcription of こん

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish con (“with”), Latin cum (“with”).

Pronunciation

Preposition

kon (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קון)

  1. with

Usage notes

Unlike in Spanish, kon does not combine with pronouns in Ladino. One simply uses kon mi, kon ti, and kon si instead of Spanish conmigo, contigo, and consigo.

Antonyms

Maia

Etymology

From English.

Noun

kon

  1. corn

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese como and Spanish como and Kabuverdianu komo.

Adverb

kon

  1. how
  2. why

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit कः पुनर् (kaḥ punar). Cognate with Hindi कौन (kaun), Bengali কোন (kōn) and Marathi कोण (koṇ).

Pronoun

kon (oblique kas)

  1. who? (interrogative)
    Kon si kothe?
    Who's there?

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kaḥ punar”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 127
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kon”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 147b
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Beníšek (2020 August) “The Historical Origins of Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 32-33
  4. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “kon, kas = kon, -es¹N”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 201b

Sranan Tongo

Verb

kon

  1. To arrive.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Noun

kon c

  1. (geometry) a cone
    1. a traffic cone
      Synonyms: trafikkon, vägkon
Declension
Declension of kon 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative kon konen koner konerna
Genitive kons konens koners konernas
Related terms
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kon

  1. definite singular of ko

References

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English corn.

Noun

kon

  1. corn
    • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎, →ISBN, page 433:
      Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Yola

Noun

kon

  1. Alternative form of cooan

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 51
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