different between mon vs dollar

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

Noun

mon

1. The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.
2. The badge or emblem of a Japanese family, especially a family of the ancient feudal nobility; typically circular and consists of conventionalized forms from nature.

Etymology 2

From a dialectal variant of man; compare Western Middle English mon (alongside Eastern man).

Noun

mon

1. (slang, used in the vocative) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England.

See also

• (term of address for a man) mate (British, Australia), dude

Etymology 3

Clipping of monster, via Japanese ?? (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon, etc.

Noun

mon (plural mons)

1. (fandom slang) A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.
2. (fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.

Anagrams

• -nom, MNO, NMO, NOM, ONM, no'm, nom, nom-, nom.

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• mònn, moon

Etymology

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic ???????????????????? (manna).

Noun

mon

1. (Sauris) man
2. (Sauris) husband

References

• “mon” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mon, from Vulgar Latin *mum, reduced form of Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Occitan and French mon.

In unstressed position in Vulgar Latin meum, meam etc. were monosyllabic and regularly became mon, ma etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and became meu, mia > meua etc.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /mun/ (always unstressed)
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /mon/ (always unstressed)

Determiner

mon m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos, feminine plural mes)

1. my

Usage notes

The use of mon and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g. el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However, mon, ton, and son are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such as amic, casa, and vida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.

The standard masculine plural form is mos, but mons can be found in some dialects.

Descendants

• Sicilian: mo (South Easy of Sicily, nearby Ragusa)

See also

• meu

Further reading

• “mon” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese

Etymology

From English monitor.

Pronunciation

Noun

mon

1. (Cantonese, hardware) monitor

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mon/, [?m?n]

Etymology 1

From the (now obsolete) present of the modal verb monne (“may, might”), via a false interpretation of sentences like hvor mon han bo? (“where may he live?”) as hvor mon han bor? (“where, I wonder, does he live?”).

Adverb

mon

1. I wonder

Usage notes

The adverb is only used in direct or indirect questions. It is usually located in the second place in the sentence, i.e. where one would expect to find the finite verb (cf. the etymology). The finite, on the other hand, is placed in the second part of the sentence, where one would expect to find an infinitive.

Synonyms

• monstro

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mon

1. (obsolete) present tense singular of monne

French

Etymology

From Middle French mon, from Old French mun, mon, meon, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum, accusative masculine and neuter singular of meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Determiner

mon m (singular)

1. (possessive) my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender).

2. Followed by rank, obligatory way of addressing a (male) superior officer within the military. (Folk etymology: military-specific short for "monsieur".)

Derived terms

• mondit

Related terms

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading

• “mon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• nom

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mão. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mon.

Noun

mon

1. hand

Japanese

Romanization

mon

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mão.

Noun

mon

1. hand

Kalasha

Noun

mon

1. a language

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-, from Proto-Indo-European *mon-.

Alternative forms

• man, manne, monne, mæn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?n/, /man/

Noun

mon (plural men)

2. man (male human)
3. human, person

Synonyms

• (man): gome, wer
• (person): persoun

Related terms

• frendman
• foman
• lege man
• manful
• manrede

Descendants

• Scots: man
• English: man
  • Tok Pisin: man
  • ? Chinese: man
  • ? Chinook Jargon: man
  • ? Korean: ? (maen)
  • ? Spanish: man
  • ? Thai: ??? (m??n)
  • ? Volapük: man
• English: -man
  • Sranan Tongo: -man
  • ? French: -man
  • ? Japanese: ?? (-man)
  • ? Welsh: -mon
• Yola: man

Etymology 2

Pronoun

mon

1. Alternative form of man (“one, you”)

Etymology 3

Noun

mon

1. Alternative form of mone (“moon”)

Etymology 4

Verb

mon

1. Alternative form of mone (“shall”)

Etymology 5

Verb

mon

1. Alternative form of monen (“to remember”)

Etymology 6

Verb

mon

1. Alternative form of monen (“to lament”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?mon/

Pronoun

mon

1. nominative of mun

Occitan

Alternative forms

• moun (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan mon, from Vulgar Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum.

Determiner

mon m sg (feminine singular ma, masculine plural mos, feminine plural mas)

1. my

   Synonyms: meu, mieu

References

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 389.

Old French

Alternative forms

• moun (Anglo-Norman)
• mun (Anglo-Norman)
• meon (very early Old French; Oaths of Strasbourg)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum, nominative neuter singular of meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mun/
• Rhymes: -on

Determiner

mon m (feminine ma, plural mes)

1. my (first-person singular possessive)

Descendants

• French: mon

Old Occitan

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum, nominative neuter singular of meus.

Alternative forms

• mo

Adjective

mon m (feminine ma)

1. my (belonging to me)

Descendants

• Catalan: mon
• Occitan: mon

Etymology 2

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mon m (oblique plural mons, nominative singular mons, nominative plural mon)

1. world

Descendants

• Catalan: món
• Occitan: mond

Scots

Noun

mon

1. man

Skolt Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Pronoun

mon

1. I

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[8], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Swedish

Noun

mon

1. definite singular of mo

Tok Pisin

Noun

mon

1. tree that bears fruit or nuts

Volapük

Noun

mon (uncountable mons)

1. money

Declension

English

Etymology

Attested since about 1500, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, literally "of Joachimstal," the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Cognate to Danish daler. Doublet of taler.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?l?/, /?d??l?/
• (General American) enPR: däl??r, IPA^(key): /?d?l?/
• (Canada, sometimes US) IPA^(key): /d?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)
• Hyphenation: dol?lar

Noun

dollar (plural dollars)

1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
2. (by extension) Money generally.
   • 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society

     Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.

3. (Britain, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
4. (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
   • 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:

     The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco

   • 1956, The Spectator, Vol. 197, page 342:

     For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.

Coordinate terms

afghani, ariary, baht, balboa, birr, bitcoin, bolivar, boliviano, cedi, colon, cordoba, dalasi, dinar, dirham, dobra, dogecoin, dong, dram, escudo, euro, florin, forint, franc, gourde, guarani, guilder, hryvnia, kina, kip, koruna, krona/króna/kronor/krone, kuna, kwacha, kwanza, kyat, lari, lek, lempira, leone, leu, lev, lilangeni, lira, litas, Litecoin, manat, mark, markka, metical, naira, nakfa, ngultrum, ouguiya, pa?anga, pataca, peso, pound, pula, quetzal, rand, rial, rial/riyal, riel, ringgit, ruble, rufiyaa, rupee, rupiah, scudo, shekel, shilling, sol, som, somoni, sterling, taka, tala, tenge, togrog, vatu, won, yen, yuan, zloty

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• cent
• dale
• mill
• mille
• vale
• valley

Anagrams

• old ral

Danish

Etymology

From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.

Noun

dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

Declension

References

• “dollar” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?l?r/
• Hyphenation: dol?lar

Noun

dollar m (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)

1. dollar (currency, especially the US dollar)

Derived terms

• dollarteken

Related terms

• daalder

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?? (doru)

French

Etymology

From English dollar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.la?/

Noun

dollar m (plural dollars)

1. dollar

Derived terms

Further reading

• “dollar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???l?????/

Noun

dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)

1. dollar

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "dollar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar

Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarene)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

Derived terms

• dollarseddel

References

• “dollar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar

Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarane)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

References

• “dollar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From English dollar.

Noun

dollar c

1. dollar

Declension