bôn

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bon"

Romagnol

Etymology

From Latin bonus (“good”).

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

Adjective

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

  1. good

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /boːn/
  • Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

bôn m (plural bonion or bonau)

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

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