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kon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kon"

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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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.

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Noun

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kon

  1. child, offspring

Bikol Central

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Conjunction

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kon

  1. Alternative form of kun

Breton

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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.

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Noun

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kon m inan

  1. (literary) act

Declension

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Declension of kon (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative kon kony
genitive konu konů
dative konu konům
accusative kon kony
vocative kone kony
locative konu konech
instrumental konem kony

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”).

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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.

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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 (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 (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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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
Declension
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Declension of kon
nominative genitive
singular indefinite kon kons
definite konen konens
plural indefinite koner koners
definite konerna konernas
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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

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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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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
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