sona

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See also: -sona, Sona, SONA, sõna, soña, Soňa, sonà, and sõnā

English

Noun

sona (plural sonas)

  1. (fandom slang) Clipping of fursona.
    • 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:
      Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.

Anagrams

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Bengali সোনা (śōna) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).

Pronunciation

Noun

sona (Bengali script সোনা)

  1. gold

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

sona

  1. inflection of sonar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

Etymology

From English zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: so‧na

Noun

sona

  1. a zone; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

Chuukese

Verb

sona

  1. (intransitive) to steal

Crimean Tatar

Noun

sona (accusative , plural )

  1. wasp

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sona f (plural sonas)

  1. rumor; word of mouth
  2. fame; reputation

References

Icelandic

Noun

sona

  1. indefinite genitive plural of sonur

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sona

  1. happy

Declension

Declension of sona
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative sona shona sona;
shona²
Vocative shona sona
Genitive sona sona sona
Dative sona;
shona¹ 		shona sona;
shona²
Comparative níos sona
Superlative is sona

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sona shona
after an, tsona 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 177, page 90
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91

Further reading

Italian

Verb

sona

  1. inflection of sonare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Javanese

Romanization

sona

  1. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦤ

Latin

Verb

sonā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sonō

References

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Noun

sona

  1. inflection of son:
    1. genitive/accusative singular
    2. nominative dual

Northern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

sona m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of sone

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sona f

  1. definite singular of sone

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sānō. Related to Old Norse senn, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns).

Pronunciation

Adverb

sōna

  1. immediately, straightway
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"
      Hwæt ða nicostratus wearð swiðe afyrht þa ða he þæt wundor ge-seah on his wife gedon and feol adune sona to sebastianes fotum...
      Then Nicostratus was greatly afraid, when he saw the miracle wrought on his wife, and straightway fell down at Sebastian's feet,...

Descendants

  • English: soon

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sona

  1. happy, fortunate

Usage notes

  • The adjectives sona and dona represent a pattern in Old Irish where words in s and so represent happy, good luck, positive denotations and words in d and do represent sad, bad luck, or negative denotations.

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
sona ṡona unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Norse

Noun

sona

  1. genitive plural of sonr

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sognāwos (“well grown”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sona

  1. happy
    Tha mi cho sona ri bròig! ― I’m as happy as a shoe!
  2. fortunate, lucky

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
sona shona
after "an", t-sona
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Swedish

Verb

sona (present sonar, preterite sonade, supine sonat, imperative sona)

  1. to atone (to make reparation for a crime or the like)
  2. (by extension) to pay (face consequences)
    Han ska få sona sina brott!
    He will pay for his crimes!

Conjugation

Conjugation of sona (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive sona sonas
Supine sonat sonats
Imperative sona —
Imper. plural1 sonen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative sonar sonade sonas sonades
Ind. plural1 sona sonade sonas sonades
Subjunctive2 sone sonade sones sonades
Participles
Present participle sonande
Past participle sonad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

References

Anagrams

Tetum

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.

Verb

sona

  1. to fry

Etymology 2

Maybe the same as above.

Verb

sona

  1. to puncture, to pierce
  2. to stab

Turkish

Noun

sona

  1. dative singular of son

Volapük

Noun

sona

  1. genitive singular of son

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

soná

  1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Stem -so, poss. stem -só
Full form soná
Locative kúso
Full form soná
Locative kúso
Copulative yíso
Possessive forms
Modifier Substantive
Class 1 wâso ówâso
Class 2 bâso ábâso
Class 3 wâso ówâso
Class 4 yâso éyâso
Class 5 lâso élâso
Class 6 âso áwâso
Class 7 sâso ésâso
Class 8 zâso ézâso
Class 9 yâso éyâso
Class 10 zâso ézâso
Class 11 lwâso ólwâso
Class 14 bâso óbâso
Class 15 kwâso ókwâso
Class 17 kwâso ókwâso

References

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