onyon

English

Noun

onyon (plural onyons)

1. Obsolete spelling of onion.
   • 2016, Elizabeth Spiller, Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books:

     Take one Onyon, cut out the core, and fill that place with the pouder of Cummin, and the juyce of Rue, set on the top again, and roast the Onyon in embers, then put away the out-side, and put in a cloth, wring out the Juyce […]

Anagrams

• noyon

Cornish

Onyon melyn

Etymology

Borrowed from English onion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔnjɔn/

Noun

onyon (collective, singulative onyonen f)

1. onions

Derived terms

• onyon ewinek (“shallot”)
• onyon Kembrek (“spring onion”)

Middle English

Noun

onyon

1. alternative form of onyoun