sone

English

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Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /soʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn
• Homophones: Saône, sewn, sown

Noun

sone (plural sones)

1. (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
2. Obsolete spelling of son
   • 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:

     Francis Eaton, and Sarah his wife, and Samuel their sone, a yong child.

Anagrams

• ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, eons, neos, noes, nose, one's, ones

German

Alternative forms

• so'ne, sonne

Etymology

The usage of this term for plurals stems from the similarity or identity of female singular and (gender unspecific) plural declensions in German grammar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔnə/

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• Homophone: Sonne
• IPA^(key): /ˈzoːnə/

Pronoun

sone

1. (colloquial) contraction of so eine (so, ein); nominative/accusative feminine singular of son, which is an alternative form of so'n
2. Ungrammatical alternative form of solch in plural.

Ladin

Noun

sone m (plural soni)

1. (Badiot) potato

   ciamp de soni ― potato field

Alternative forms

• patat (Gherdëina)
• pom de tera, patat (Fascian)

Latin

Noun

sone

1. vocative singular of sonus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *sunu, suno, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Noun

sōne m

1. son

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• suene

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dutch: zoon
  • Afrikaans: seun
  • Jersey Dutch: zőn
• Limburgish: zoon, zoean
• West Flemish: zeune

Further reading

• “sone (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sunu, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Alternative forms

• sune, sun, sonn, sonne, son

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsun(ə)/

Noun

sone (plural sones)

2. son
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Joon ·i· 5:21, page 115v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     mi litle ſones kepe ȝe ȝou fro mawmetis

     My little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Related terms

• godsone
• horesone
• sone in lawe
• sonely
• stepsone

Descendants

• English: son
• Scots: son

References

• “sǒne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English sōna, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *sān(ō).

Alternative forms

• zone (Kent)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːn(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːn(ə)

Adverb

sone

1. soon

Descendants

• English: soon
• Scots: sone, sune, schone
• Yola: zoon, soon

References

• “sọ̄ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

sone

1. Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Turkish suna (“drake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːˈnɛ/

Noun

sone m or f

1. duck, drake

   Synonyms: miravî, werdek

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “sone”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 558

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

Noun

sone f or m (definite singular sona or sonen, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)

1. zone

Derived terms

References

• “sone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

Noun

sone f (definite singular sona, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)

1. zone

Derived terms

References

• “sone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ternate

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *soneŋ (“to die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

sone

1. (stative) to be dead
2. (intransitive) to die

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish

Etymology

From French sonnet.

Noun

sone (definite accusative soneyi, plural soneler)

1. sonnet

Declension

Volapük

Noun

sone

1. dative singular of son