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sona

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

English edit

Noun edit

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 edit

Atong (India) edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sona (Bengali script সোনা)

  1. gold

References edit

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

sona

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

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: so‧na

Noun edit

sona

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

Chuukese edit

Verb edit

sona

  1. (intransitive) to steal

Crimean Tatar edit

Noun edit

sona (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. wasp

Galician edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sona f (plural sonas)

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

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Icelandic edit

Noun edit

sona

  1. indefinite genitive plural of sonur

Irish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

sona

  1. happy

Declension edit

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 edit

Mutation edit

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 edit

  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 edit

Italian edit

Verb edit

sona

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

Anagrams edit

Javanese edit

Romanization edit

sona

  1. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦤ

Latin edit

Verb edit

sonā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sonō

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Lower Sorbian edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sona

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

Northern Ndebele edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun edit

soná

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

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

sona m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of sone

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Noun edit

sona f

  1. definite singular of sone

Old English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

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 edit

  • English: soon

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

sona

  1. happy, fortunate

Usage notes edit

  • 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 edit

Mutation edit

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 edit

Noun edit

sona

  1. genitive plural of sonr

Phuthi edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun edit

soná

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

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

sona

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

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun edit

soná

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

Swazi edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun edit

soná

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

Swedish edit

Verb edit

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 edit

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 edit

References edit

Anagrams edit

Tetum edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.

Verb edit

sona

  1. to fry

Etymology 2 edit

Maybe the same as above.

Verb edit

sona

  1. to puncture, to pierce
  2. to stab

Turkish edit

Noun edit

sona

  1. dative singular of son

Volapük edit

Noun edit

sona

  1. genitive singular of son

Xhosa edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun edit

soná

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

Zulu edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

soná

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

Inflection edit

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

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