bôn

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Romagnol[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bonus (good).

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. good

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Welsh bon, from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Old Irish bun (base, bottom).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bôn m (plural bonion or bonau)

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

Mutation[edit]

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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71