mone

See also: Mone, móne, mõne, and møne

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mone, imone, from Old English gemāna (“community, company, society, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation”), from Proto-Germanic *gamainô (“community”), from Proto-Indo-European *moini- (“common, collective”).

Noun

mone (countable and uncountable, plural mones)

1. (obsolete) Communion; participation; companionship.
2. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
3. (archaic) A companion.

Etymology 2

From Middle English monien, from Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell what ought to be done, teach, instruct, advise, claim, demand, ask of a person, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *manōną (“to admonish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mania (“to admonish”), Dutch manen (“to admonish”), German mahnen (“to remind, admonish, urge”).

Verb

mone (third-person singular simple present mones, present participle moning, simple past and past participle moned)

1. (transitive) To admonish; advise; explain.

Etymology 3

From Middle English mone, alteration (affected by monien (“to admonish”)) of *mine (“mind”), from Middle English minen, mynen, munen, from Old English ġemynan, ġemunan (“to remember”). More at mind.

Noun

mone (plural mones)

1. Mind; preference.
   • 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Second Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London: Privately printed], 1870, →OCLC, page 6:

     A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.

Anagrams

• Emon, NEMO, Nome, meno-, meon, nemo, nome, omen

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German māne, from Old High German māno. Cognate with German Mond, English moon, Icelandic máni, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰 (mēna).

Noun

mone

1. (Sappada, Sauris) moon

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ne/
• Rhymes: -ɔne
• Hyphenation: mò‧ne

Noun

mone

1. plural of mona (“monkey”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: mó‧ne

Noun

mone

1. plural of mona (“vagina”)

Latin

Verb

monē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of moneō

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mān, from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō.

Alternative forms

• mon, moone, mane, man, mene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

mone

2. A lamentation
3. A moan, complaint

Derived terms

• monen

Descendants

• English: moan
• Scots: mane
• Yola: moan

Etymology 2

From Old English mōna. The sense of the word as silver is the result of its astrological association with the planet.

Alternative forms

• moone, mon, moyn, moyne, mona, monæ

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mone (plural mones or monen)

2. (astronomy) The celestial body closest to the Earth, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system as well as the boundary between the Earth and the heavens; the Moon.
3. (rare) A white, precious metal; silver.
   • 1500, Singer, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain in Ireland:

     Tak j quarter oz of the sone and di. of the mone purgyd, And mak of both thes sotyl powder lymal.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• lune
• (planet): Lucyna, Diane, Phebe

Derived terms

• monyssh
• monelich
• bente mone
• aboven þe mone
• under þe mone
• in þe croke of þe mone

Descendants

• English: moon
  • Sranan Tongo: mun
  • Tok Pisin: mun
  • Torres Strait Creole: mun
• Scots: muin
• Yola: moone, mond

References

• “mon(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse munu, from Proto-Germanic *munaną. Doublet of monen (“to remember”).

Alternative forms

• mon, mune, munne, mun, man

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmun(ə)/

Verb

mone (chiefly Northern, auxiliary)

2. Expresses futurity: shall, will
3. Expresses obligation: must, ought to
4. Expresses ability: can, be able to

Conjugation

Conjugation of mone (preterite-present, defective)

infinitive	—
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	mon	monde
2nd-person singular	mon	monde
3rd-person singular	mon	monde
subjunctive singular	mone
imperative singular	—	—
plural1	monen, mone	monden, monde
imperative plural	—	—
participles	—	—

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: mun (dialectal)
• Scots: maun, mun, man, mon

References

• “monen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 4

Verb

mone

1. Alternative form of monen (“to remember”)

Etymology 5

Verb

mone

1. Alternative form of monen (“to lament”)

Etymology 6

Noun

mone

1. Alternative form of moneye

Volapük

Noun

mone

1. dative singular of mon