bôn

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bon"

Romagnol

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”).

Pronunciation

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈbõː]

• (Ville Unite):

Adjective

bôn m (feminine bôna, masculine plural bôn, feminine plural bôni) (Ville Unite)

1. good

Tày

Alternative forms

• bân

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ɓɯnᴬ (“sky; heaven”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨷᩫ᩠ᨶ, Lao ບົນ (bon), Lü ᦥᦳᧃ (bun) or ᦢᦳᧃ (ḃun), Shan ဝူၼ် (wǔun) or မူၼ် (mǔun), Zhuang mbwn, Bouyei mbenl, Saek บึ๋น, Thai บน (bon).

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓon˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓon˦]

Noun

bôn

1. sky

   Synonym: fạ

   Chúa Bôn ― the Lord

   pú bôn ― heavenly lord

   bôn đin ― heaven and earth

   bôn khả fạ khiếc ― be damned (literally, “The sky kills, the sky slashes”)

   Nưa bôn mì me̱ bjooc.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Bôn cháu chắng hết đảy.

   Only the Heaven can help.

Derived terms

• hí bôn
• nghiều bôn
• tó bôn

 

References

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[3] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh bon, from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Old Irish bun (“base, bottom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːn/
• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

bôn m (plural bonion or bonau)

1. base, bottom
2. trunk, stem
3. (linguistics) stem
4. (mathematics) base

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bôn	fôn	môn	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.