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kon

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Translingual

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Symbol

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kon

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kongo.

Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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kon

  1. preterite of kan; could

Atikamekw

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Noun

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kon anim

  1. snow

Bahnar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bahnaric *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən; cognate with Koho kon, Vietnamese con, Khasi khun, Khmer កូន (koun), Mon ကွေန် (kon), Car Nicobarese kūön.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kon

  1. child, offspring

Bikol Central

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Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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kon

  1. Alternative form of kun

Breton

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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kon m pl

  1. plural of ki

Mutation

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Mutation of kon
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular ki gi c'hi unchanged
plural kon gon c'hon unchanged

Czech

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Etymology

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Deverbal from konat.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kon m inan

  1. (literary) act

Declension

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Further reading

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  • kon”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • kon”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɔn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔn
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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kon

  1. singular past indicative of kunnen

Japanese

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Romanization

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kon

  1. Rōmaji transcription of こん

Ladino

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Etymology

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From Old Spanish con (with), Latin cum (with).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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kon (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קון)

  1. with

Usage notes

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Unlike in Spanish, kon does not combine with pronouns in Ladino. One simply uses kon mi, kon ti, and kon si instead of Spanish conmigo, contigo, and consigo.

Antonyms

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Maia

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Etymology

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From English.

Noun

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kon

  1. corn

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian cono.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kon m (plural konijiet)

  1. cone
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Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese como and Spanish como and Kabuverdianu komo.

Adverb

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kon

  1. how
  2. why

Romani

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit कः पुनर् (kaḥ punar).[1][2][3] Cognate with Hindi कौन (kaun), Bengali কোন (kōn) and Marathi कोण (koṇ).

Pronoun

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kon (oblique kas)

  1. who? (interrogative)[2][3][4]
    Kon si kothe?
    Who's there?

References

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  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kaḥ punar”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 127
  2. 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kon”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 147b
  3. 3.0 3.1 Michael Beníšek (2020 August) “The Historical Origins of Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 32-33
  4. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “kon, kas = kon, -es¹N”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 201b

Sranan Tongo

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Verb

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kon

  1. To arrive.

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Noun

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kon c

  1. (geometry) a cone
    1. a traffic cone
      Synonyms: trafikkon, vägkon
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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kon

  1. definite singular of ko

References

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English corn.

Noun

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kon

  1. corn
    • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics[1], →ISBN, page 433:
      Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
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Yola

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Noun

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kon

  1. Alternative form of cooan

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 51