oignon

French

Alternative forms

• ognon (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French oingnon, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /ɔ.ɲɔ̃/, (proscribed but common) /wa.ɲɔ̃/

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  • (Provence) IPA^(key): /oˈɲɔᵑ/, /oˈɲɔɲ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɔɲõ/

Noun

oignon m (plural oignons)

1. onion (Allium cepa)
2. bulb (of a plant)
3. (in the plural, colloquial) one's own business

Derived terms

• aux petits oignons
• en rang d’oignon
• oignon vert
• se mêler de ses oignons, s’occuper de ses oignons (“mind one's own business”)

Descendants

• Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oignon
  • Haitian Creole: zonyon
• Seychellois Creole: zonyon

Further reading

• “oignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Alternative forms

• oinon, oingnun, union, unniun

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“onion”).

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /oˈɲon/
• (classical, late) IPA^(key): /uˈɲun/

Noun

oignon m (oblique plural oignons, nominative singular oignons, nominative plural oignon)

1. onion (Allium cepa)

Descendants

• Angevin: ognon, ugnon
• ⇒ Bourbonnais-Berrichon: ognounet
• Bourguignon: ougnion
• Champenois: ègnon, ognon, ongnon, ougnon
• Franc-Comtois: agnon, ègnon, onon, ognon, ougnon, ounon

  Jurassien Franc-Comtois: oégnon, ouégnon, ouignon

• Middle French: oingnon
  • French: oignon, ognon
    • Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oignon
      • Haitian Creole: zonyon
    • Seychellois Creole: zonyon
• Gallo: ongnon
• Lorrain: ougnan

  Vosgien: ègnon, èyon

• Norman: ougnoun, ouongnon
• Picard: ongnon
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: egnun, ignun, ougnun
• Walloon: agnon
• → Middle Breton: oingnon
  • Breton: ognon
• → Middle Dutch: ayuun, ejuun, oinjun
  • Dutch: ajuin
    • Afrikaans: uintjie
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: ajun
    • → Aukan: ayun
    • → Saramaccan: ajón
    • → Sranan Tongo: ayun
      • → Arawak: ajoeng
      • → Galibi Carib: ayuna
• → Middle Dutch: uyen
  • Dutch: ui
    • Afrikaans: ui
  • Limburgish: ooj, un
• → Middle English: onyoun, onyon, oynioun, oynon, oynoun, uniown, unon, unyon; oynnun, oynoin, ungeon; eyngnon, honȝon, onȝone, oyenoun, oygnon, oyneȝoun, oyneon, oyneoun, oynyon, oynyn, unnan
  • English: onion
    • Bislama: anian
    • Tok Pisin: anian
    • → Maori: aniana
  • Scots: ingan, ingin
  • → Cornish: onyon
  • →? Welsh: wynwyn
• →? Middle Irish: uinniún
  • Irish: oinniún