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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English onyoun, oynoun, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem, accusative of ūniō (“onion, large pearl”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as yne, ynnelēac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Also displaced Middle English knelek (literally “knee-leek”) and the inherited term ramsons.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈʌn.jən/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈʌŋ.jɪn/
- (dialectal, obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋ.ən/, /ˈɪn.jən/[1][2]
- Rhymes: -ʌnjən
Noun[edit]
onion (plural onions)
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- The bulb of such a plant.
- 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
- 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- A plant of the genus Allium as a whole. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (slang, of a drug) An ounce.
- (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
- (obsolete, slang) A watch-seal.
- 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
- […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; / O was an Onion, possessed by a swell; / P was a Pannie, done niblike and well. […]
- Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”)
Synonyms[edit]
- (vegetable): violet (UK dialect)
Derived terms[edit]
- autumn onion (Allium stellatum)
- baby onion
- Bangalore rose onion
- Bermuda onion
- blooming onion
- bog onion
- Bristol onion (Allium sphaerocephalon)
- brown onion
- bucky onion
- bulb onion (Allium cepa)
- bulge in the onion bag
- bulge the onion bag
- bunching onion (Allium fistulosum)
- button onion
- Canada onion (Allium canadense)
- Cape poison onion (Ornithoglossum glaucum)
- Chinese onion
- cipolline onion
- climbing onion Bowiea volubilis)
- coast flatleaf onion (Allium falcifolium)
- cocktail onion
- common onion (Allium cepa)
- crow onion (Allium vineale)
- desert onion
- dry onion
- Egyptian onion (Allium × proliferum, syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum)
- flaming onion
- flowering onion (Allium neopolitanum)
- French onion soup
- garlion
- glass onion
- green onion
- Hooker's onion (Allium acuminatum
- is someone cutting onions
- Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum)
- jeweled onion (Allium serra)
- long green onion (Allium fistulosum)
- long onion
- Maori onion
- multiplier onion (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)
- nodding onion (Allium cernuum)
- off one's onion
- Oklahoma onion burger
- one-leaf onion (Allium unifolium)
- onion bag
- onion booty
- onion bottle
- onion bread
- onion couch
- onion dome
- onion downy mildew (Peronospora destructor)
- onion eelworm (Ditylenchus dipsaci)
- onion fish
- onion flute
- onion fly (Delia antiqua)
- onion grass (Allium vineale)
- onion Johnny
- onion louse (Thrips tabaci)
- onion maggot (Delia antiqua)
- onion mildew
- onion network
- onion paper
- onion powdery mildew (Leveillula taurica)
- onion red
- onion ring
- onion router
- onion routing
- onion scab (Colletotrichum circinans)
- onion seed
- onion service
- onion skin
- onion skinning
- onion smudge (Colletotrichum circinans)
- onion smut (Urocystis cepulae)
- onion snow
- onion stick
- onion straw
- onion thrips (Thrips tabaci)
- onion weed (Nuthoscordum inodorum)
- oniony
- oniony
- Onion yellow dwarf virus
- Pacific mountain onion (Allium validum)
- Pacific onion (Allium validum)
- pearl onion
- peel back the onion
- peel the onion
- pom-pom onion (Allium serra)
- potato onion (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)
- prairie onion (Allium stellatum)
- purple onion
- quantum onion
- red onion
- red-skinned onion (Allium haematochiton)
- salad onion (Allium fistulosum)
- scytheleaf onion (Allium falcifolium)
- sea onion (Urginea maritima)
- serrated onion (Allium serra)
- shore onion (Allium schoenoprasum)
- Siberian onion
- silverskin onion
- Spanish onion
- spring onion (Allium fistulosum)
- spunion
- swamp onion (Allium validum)
- sweet onion
- table onion
- take out an onion
- tapertip onion (Allium acuminatum)
- topset onion (Allium × proliferum, syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum)
- tree onion (Allium × proliferum, syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum)
- twincrest onion (Allium bisceptrum)
- Vidalia onion
- walking onion
- walking onoin (Allium × proliferum)
- Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
- white onion
- wild onion
- winter onion
- yard onion
- yellow onion
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]
Allium cepa
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bulb
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genus
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Stanley, Oma (1937) “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, , →ISBN, § 12, page 27.
- ^ Bingham, Caleb (1808) “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] [1], 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 75.
Welsh[edit]
Noun[edit]
onion m (singulative onionyn)
- Alternative form of wynwyn (“onions”)
Mutation[edit]
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
| onion | unchanged | unchanged | honion |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References[edit]
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “wynwyn, wnion, winion, winiwn, &c.”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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