sone

• (General American) IPA^(key): /soʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn
• Homophones: Saône, sewn, sown

sone (plural sones)

1. (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
2. Obsolete spelling of son
   • 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:

     Francis Eaton, and Sarah his wife, and Samuel their sone, a yong child.

• ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, eons, neos, noes, nose, one's, ones

• so'ne, sonne

The usage of this term for plurals stems from the similarity or identity of female singular and (gender unspecific) plural declensions in German grammar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔnə/

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• Homophone: Sonne
• IPA^(key): /ˈzoːnə/

sone

1. (colloquial) contraction of so eine (so, ein); nominative/accusative feminine singular of son, which is an alternative form of so'n
2. Ungrammatical alternative form of solch in plural.

sone m (plural soni)

1. (Badiot) potato

   ciamp de soni ― potato field

• patat (Gherdëina)
• pom de tera, patat (Fascian)

sone

1. vocative singular of sonus

From Old Dutch *sunu, suno, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

sōne m

1. son

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• suene

• Dutch: zoon
  • Afrikaans: seun
  • Jersey Dutch: zőn
• Limburgish: zoon, zoean
• West Flemish: zeune

• “sone (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old English sunu, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

• sune, sun, sonn, sonne, son

• IPA^(key): /ˈsun(ə)/

sone (plural sones)

1. son
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Joon ·i· 5:21, page 115v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     mi litle ſones kepe ȝe ȝou fro mawmetis

     My little children, keep yourselves from idols.

• godsone
• horesone
• sone in lawe
• sonely
• stepsone

• English: son
• Scots: son

• “sǒne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English sōna, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *sān(ō).

• zone (Kent)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːn(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːn(ə)

sone

1. soon

• English: soon
• Scots: sone, sune, schone
• Yola: zoon, soon

• “sọ̄ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

sone

1. Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

Compare Turkish suna (“drake”).

• IPA^(key): /soːˈnɛ/

sone m or f

1. duck, drake

   Synonyms: miravî, werdek

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “sone”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 558

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

sone f or m (definite singular sona or sonen, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)

1. zone

• “sone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

sone f (definite singular sona, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)

1. zone

• “sone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-North Halmahera *soneŋ (“to die”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈso.ne]

sone

1. (stative) to be dead
2. (intransitive) to die

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From French sonnet.

sone (definite accusative soneyi, plural soneler)

1. sonnet

sone

1. dative singular of son