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Translingual
Symbol
kon
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kongo.
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Verb
kon
- preterite of kan; could
Atikamekw
Noun
kon anim
- 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
- child, offspring
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
Conjunction
kon
- Alternative form of kun
Breton
Pronunciation
Noun
kon m pl
- plural of ki
Mutation
Czech
Etymology
Deverbal from konat.
Pronunciation
Noun
kon m inan
- (literary) act
Declension
Declension of kon (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “kon”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “kon”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
kon
- singular past indicative of kunnen
Japanese
Romanization
kon
- Rōmaji transcription of こん
Ladino
Etymology
From Old Spanish con (“with”), Latin cum (“with”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
kon (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קון)
- 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
- corn
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian cono.
Pronunciation
Noun
kon m (plural konijiet)
- cone
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese como and Spanish como and Kabuverdianu komo.
Adverb
kon
- how
- why
Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit कः पुनर् (kaḥ punar).[1][2][3] Cognate with Hindi कौन (kaun), Bengali কোন (kōn) and Marathi कोण (koṇ).
Pronoun
kon (oblique kas)
- who? (interrogative)[2][3][4]
Kon si kothe?- Who's there?
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kaḥ punar”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 127
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 3.0 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
- ^ 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
- To arrive.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).
Noun
kon c
- (geometry) a cone
- a traffic cone
- Synonyms: trafikkon, vägkon
Declension
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
kon
- definite singular of ko
References
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English corn.
Noun
kon
- 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
- 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