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[edit]ones
Noun
[edit]ones pl (plural only)
- (sports) A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).
- (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the ground floor.
Pronoun
[edit]ones
- plural of one
- Obsolete form of one's.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 8:
- Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing, […]
- 1648, A VVay unto True Christian Unitie: The Worship of God in Spirit and in Truth: […], London: […] John Legatt, […], page 43:
- Not to leane unto ones own underſtanding: but in all ones wayes to acknowledge the Lord, and he will direct ones paths. Not to be wiſe in ones own eyes: but to feare the Lord, and to depart from evill. To bridle ones tongue: […]
- a. 1700 (date written), William Temple, “Heads, Designed for an Essay on Conversation”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, →OCLC, page 327:
- Pride and Roughneſs may turn ones Humour, but Flattery turns ones Stomach.
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Middle English
[edit]1 | 2 → [a], [b] | |
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Cardinal: oon, oo Ordinal: first Adverbial: ene, enes, ones Multiplier: sengle Distributive: sengle |
Alternative forms
[edit]- once, onis, onies, ons, onys, onyes
- anes, ans, anis, anys (northern)
- anes (Early Middle English)
- wons, wones, ȝons (Late Middle English)
Etymology
[edit]From Old English ānes, a modification of ǣnes (“once”) after ān (“one”, Middle English oon). Compare enes (“once”), from the unmodified Old English form.
Pronunciation
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Descendants
[edit]- English: once
- Scots: ance, aince, eence; anes, anis; yance, yence, yince, yinst; wance, wanst
- Yola: oanes
References
[edit]- “ō̆nes, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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