onn

From Old Norse ǫnn.

onn f (definite singular onna, indefinite plural onner, definite plural onnene)

1. bustle
2. perseverance
3. hard farmwork, usually at a specific time of year
4. the time period in which hard farmwork is done

• “onn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• on (Sutsilvan, Vallader)
• an (Puter)

From Latin annus.

onn m (plural onns)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) year

• ynn

From Proto-Brythonic *onnā (compare Cornish/Breton onn), from Proto-Celtic *osnos (compare Old Irish uinnius), from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s-(e)no-s (compare English ash, Latin ornus).

• IPA^(key): /ɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn

onn f (collective, singulative onnen)

1. ash trees

• c. 1800, “Llwyn Onn [The Ash Grove]”, anonymous lyricist, anonymous composer:

  Yn nyffryn llwyn onn draw mi welais hardd feinwen […]

  In yonder valley of an ash grove I saw a fair maiden […]