sona
English edit
Noun edit
sona (plural sonas)
- (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)
References edit
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sona
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
Chuukese edit
Verb edit
sona
- (intransitive) to steal
Crimean Tatar edit
Noun edit
sona (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sona f (plural sonas)
References edit
- “sona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “sona” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “sona” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Icelandic edit
Noun edit
sona
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sona
Declension edit
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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
- lá breithe sona dhuit (“happy birthday”)
- Nollaig shona (“Merry Christmas”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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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. |
Italian edit
Verb edit
sona
- inflection of sonare:
Anagrams edit
Javanese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Either from Pali soṇa, or directly from Sanskrit श्वन् (śvan)
Noun edit
sona (kawi sona)
References edit
- The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015), “sona”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN
Latin edit
Verb edit
sonā
References edit
- sona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Lower Sorbian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sona
- inflection of son:
Northern Ndebele edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun edit
soná
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
sona m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
sona f
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *sānō. Related to Old Norse senn, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
sōna
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
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 | ||
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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
Phuthi edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun edit
soná
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sognāwos (“well grown”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sona
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
Swazi edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun edit
soná
Swedish edit
Verb edit
sona (present sonar, preterite sonade, supine sonat, imperative sona)
- to atone (to make reparation for a crime or the like)
- (by extension) to pay (face consequences)
- Han ska få sona sina brott!
- He will pay for his crimes!
Conjugation edit
Active | Passive | |||
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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
- sona in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- sona in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- sona in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Tetum edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.
Verb edit
sona
- to fry
Etymology 2 edit
Maybe the same as above.
Verb edit
sona
Turkish edit
Noun edit
sona
Volapük edit
Noun edit
sona
Xhosa edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun edit
soná
Zulu edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
soná
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 |
References edit
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “sona”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “sona (6.3)”