mone
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Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English mone, imone, from Old English ġemāna (“community, company, society, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation”), from Proto-Germanic *gamainô (“community”), from Proto-Indo-European *moini- (“common, collective”).
Noun
mone (countable and uncountable, plural mones)
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English monien, from Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell what ought to be done, teach, instruct, advise, claim, demand, ask of a person, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *manōną (“to admonish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mania (“to admonish”), Dutch manen (“to admonish”), German mahnen (“to remind, admonish, urge”).
Verb
mone (third-person singular simple present mones, present participle moning, simple past and past participle moned)
- (transitive) To admonish; advise; explain.
Etymology 3
Inherited from Middle English mone, alteration (affected by monien (“to admonish”)) of *mine (“mind”), from Middle English minen, mynen, munen, from Old English ġemynan, ġemunan (“to remember”). More at mind.
Noun
mone (plural mones)
- (obsolete) Mind; preference.
- 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Second Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London]: [Privately printed], 1870, →OCLC, page 6:
- A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.
Etymology 4
Alternative spellings.
Noun
mone (plural mones)
Verb
mone (third-person singular simple present mones, present participle moning, simple past and past participle moned)
Anagrams
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German māne, from Old High German māno. Cognate with German Mond, English moon, Icelandic máni, Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰 (mēna).
Noun
mone
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
mone
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
mone
Verb
monē
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English mān, from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
mone
- A lamentation
- A moan, complaint
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: moan
- Fingallian: mackillmone
- Scots: mane
- Yola: moan
References
- “mōn, n.1”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old English mōna. The sense of the word as silver is the result of its astrological association with the planet.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
- (astronomy) The celestial body closest to the Earth, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system as well as the boundary between the Earth and the heavens; the Moon.
- (rare) A white, precious metal; silver.
- 1500, Singer, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain in Ireland:
- Tak j quarter oz of the sone and di. of the mone purgyd, And mak of both thes sotyl powder lymal.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “mon(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Old Norse munu, from Proto-Germanic *munaną. Doublet of monen (“to remember”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
mone (chiefly Northern, auxiliary)
- Expresses futurity: shall, will
- Expresses obligation: must, ought to
- Expresses ability: can, be able to
Conjugation
Conjugation of mone (preterite-present, defective)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
References
- “monen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
Verb
mone
- Alternative form of monen (“to remember”)
Etymology 5
Verb
mone
- Alternative form of monen (“to lament”)
Etymology 6
Noun
mone
- Alternative form of moneye
Noun
mone
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