fon

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English fonne (noun). More at fun.

Noun[edit]

fon (plural fons)

  1. (obsolete) A fool or idiot.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun[edit]

fon (plural fons)

  1. A chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon.
    • 2008, Milton Krieger, Cameroon's Social Democratic Front, →ISBN, page 71:
      Province-wide, the latter part of the 1990s witnessed considerable efforts by the regime to organize and activate a bloc of such financially dependent fons in the North West Elite Association (NWELA), […]
    • 2010, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon →ISBN, page 53:
      In the early 1900s, the Bafut fought several wars with the German colonizers and their allies, ending in 1907 with the exile of the fon of that time.
    • 2011, Society and Change in Bali Nyonga: Critical Perspectives →ISBN, page 152:
      Biya's volte-face became apparent in July 1990 when he, as president of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) appointed Ganyonga and the fons of Mankon and Bafut into key positions of the party […]
Derived terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Verb[edit]

fon

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of fondre
  2. second-person singular imperative form of fondre

Cornish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Late Cornish) IPA(key): /foːn/
  • (Middle Cornish) IPA(key): /fɔːn/

Noun[edit]

fon m (plural fons)

  1. telephone, phone

French[edit]

Noun[edit]

fon m (uncountable)

  1. Fon (language)

Further reading[edit]

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

fōn

  1. Romanization of 𐍆𐍉𐌽

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From French fond (“bottom”)

Noun[edit]

fon

  1. bottom

Etymology 2[edit]

From French front (“forehead”).

Noun[edit]

fon

  1. forehead

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Uralic *puna- (“to spin, twist”). Cognates include Southern Mansi po̰n- and Finnish punoa.[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

fon

  1. (transitive) to spin (to make thread by twisting fibers)
    Gyapjút fontak. - They were spinning wool.
  2. (transitive) to weave
    kosarat fon - to weave baskets
  3. (transitive) to weave something (into something -ba/-be)
    Gyöngyöket font a hajába. - She wove pearls in her hair.
  4. (transitive) to braid, plait (to interweave three or more strands, strips)
    A haját copfba fonta. - She plaited her hair.

Conjugation[edit]

conjugation of fon
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica-
tive
mood 		Pre-
sent 		Indef. fonok fonsz fon fonunk fontok fonnak
Def. fonom fonod fonja fonjuk fonjátok fonják
2nd-p. o. fonlak ―
Past Indef. fontam fontál font fontunk fontatok fontak
Def. fontam fontad fonta fontuk fontátok fonták
2nd-p. o. fontalak ―
Condi-
tional
mood 		Pre-
sent 		Indef. fonnék fonnál fonna fonnánk fonnátok fonnának
Def. fonnám fonnád fonná fonnánk fonnátok fonnák
2nd-p. o. fonnálak ―
Sub-
junc-
tive
mood 		Pre-
sent 		Indef. fonjak fonj or
fonjál 		fonjon fonjunk fonjatok fonjanak
Def. fonjam fond or
fonjad 		fonja fonjuk fonjátok fonják
2nd-p. o. fonjalak ―
Infinitive fonni fonnom fonnod fonnia fonnunk fonnotok fonniuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms 		Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
fonás fonó font or fonott fonandó fonva fonhat

Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

(Expressions):

References[edit]

  1. ^ Entry #812 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  2. ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Indonesian[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Dutch foon (“phone”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɔn]
  • Hyphenation: fon

Noun[edit]

fon (plural, first-person possessive fonku, second-person possessive fonmu, third-person possessive fonnya)

  1. (linguistics) phone, a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Dutch föhn (“foehn”), from German Föhn, from Vulgar Latin *faōnius, from Latin Favōnius (“Favonius”), a Roman wind god.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɔn]
  • Hyphenation: fon

Noun[edit]

fon (plural, first-person possessive fonku, second-person possessive fonmu, third-person possessive fonnya)

  1. (meteorology) foehn, a warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland, and similar warm dry wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

From English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɔn]
  • Hyphenation: fon

Noun[edit]

fon (plural, first-person possessive fonku, second-person possessive fonmu, third-person possessive fonnya)

  1. (computing, typography) font.

Alternative forms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Originally a brandname, from German Fön, from Föhn, a warm, dry wind.

Noun[edit]

fon m (invariable)

  1. hairdryer, blowdryer
    Synonym: asciugacapelli

Derived terms[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Unknown.

Verb[edit]

fon

  1. Alternative form of fonnen

Etymology 2[edit]

Unknown.

Noun[edit]

fon

  1. Alternative form of fonne

Adjective[edit]

fon

  1. Alternative form of fonne

Etymology 3[edit]

From Old English ġefān, plural of ġefāh.

Noun[edit]

fon

  1. plural of fo

Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From earlier *fōhan [ˈfoː.xɑn], from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną. Cognate with Old Frisian fā, Old Saxon fahan, Old Dutch fān, Old High German fahan, Old Norse fá, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (fahan).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

fōn

  1. to catch, capture; seize
  2. (with tō) to take what is given, receive or accept what is offered
  3. (with tō) to conquer, take over
    Hīe cwǣdon þæt hē wolde tō þǣre byrġ fōn.
    They said he would take over the city.

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of fōn (strong class 7)
infinitive fōn fōnne
indicative present past
1st-person singular fō fēng
2nd-person singular fēhst fēnge
3rd-person singular fēhþ fēng
plural fōþ fēngon
subjunctive present past
singular fō fēnge
plural fōn fēngen
imperative
singular fōh
plural fōþ
participle present past
fōnde (ġe)fangen

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle English: fon, fangen

Old Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *fanē (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó. Cognates include Old Saxon fan and Old Dutch fan.

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

fon

  1. of

Descendants[edit]

  • North Frisian: foon
  • Saterland Frisian: fon
  • West Frisian: fan

References[edit]

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old High German[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *afanē, *fanē, *funē (“from”).

Preposition[edit]

fon

  1. from

Descendants[edit]

Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Article[edit]

fon

  1. Contraction of fo + in (“under the (accusative singular masculine/feminine; dative singular all genders)”).
    • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St. Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
      Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑aí fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
      It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

Old Saxon[edit]

Preposition[edit]

fon

  1. Alternative form of fan

Saterland Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Frisian fon, from Proto-Germanic *fanē. Compare West Frisian fan, German von.

Preposition[edit]

fon

  1. from
  2. of

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fo + an

Preposition[edit]

fon

  1. under the
  2. under their

Derived terms[edit]

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fȏn m (Cyrillic spelling фо̑н)

  1. (linguistics) phone
Declension[edit]
Declension of fon
singular plural
nominative fȏn foni
genitive fona fona
dative fonu fonima
accusative fon fone
vocative fone foni
locative fonu fonima
instrumental fonom fonima

Etymology 2[edit]

From French fond.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fȏn m (Cyrillic spelling фо̑н)

  1. basis, foundation
  2. (painting) the first layer that lays the foundation for the painting
Declension[edit]
Declension of fon
singular plural
nominative fȏn fónovi
genitive fona fonova
dative fonu fonovima
accusative fon fonove
vocative fone fonovi
locative fonu fonovima
instrumental fonom fonovima
Synonyms[edit]

Vilamovian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German von (“from”), from Old High German fon, fona (“from”). Cognate with German von.

Preposition[edit]

fon

  1. from
  2. of (belonging to)
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