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English
Noun
oon (plural oons)[1]
- (UK, dialectal, obsolete) An oven.
References
- ^ Thomas Darlington (1887) The Folk-speech of South Cheshire, page 225
Finnish
Verb
oon
- (colloquial) first-person singular present indicative of olla
Synonyms
See also
Noun
oon
- genitive singular of oo
Ingrian
Pronunciation
Verb
oon
- first-person singular indicative present of olla
References
- V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 122
Middle English
- (numeral, pronoun):
- on, one, oen, oune, hon, none, an, anne, onne
- an, ane, auen, aune (Northern)
- auen, aune (north Midland)
- enne, onen, onenen (Kent)
- en, an, ane (Early Middle English)
- won, von, wone (Late Middle English)
- (adverb): on, one; an (Northern); an, ane (Early Middle English)
Etymology
From Old English ān, from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos. Compare an, oo.
Pronunciation
Numeral
oon
- one
c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folios 6, verso – 7, recto; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:Almihti godd· feader· ſune· hali gaſt· aſ ȝe beoð ϸreo an godd: alſƿa ȝe beoð an mihte· an ƿiſdom· ⁊ an luue […]- Almighty God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as both three and one, while being one Might, one Wisdom, and one Love
1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Prologe of the Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published , →OCLC, folio 63, verso, lines 438-440:And but ye do / c[er]teyn we shal yow teche / that it is fair / to han a wyf in pees / Oon of vs two / moſte bowen doutelees- And unless you do, we'll certainly teach you / that it's fair to have a wife in peace; / one of the two of us must without doubt submit.
Pronoun
oon
- one
Adverb
oon
- singly, by oneself, by itself
Descendants
References
- p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
- “ō̆n, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “ō̆n, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “ō̆n, adv.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Yucatec Maya
Pronunciation
Noun
oon
- avocado