different between mon vs sun

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n, IPA^(key): /s?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: son

Etymology 1

From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunn?, from Proto-Germanic *sunn?, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh?wen-, oblique of *sóh?wl? (“sun”)

See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit ???? (s?nú), Avestan ????????????????? (x????g)).

Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.

Alternative forms

• (proper noun, star which the Earth revolves around): Sun (capitalized)
• sonne, sunne (obsolete spelling)

Proper noun

sun

2. The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.

Usage notes

• While the sun by tradition is typically regarded as masculine, the noun itself was originally feminine in grammatical gender.

Translations

See sun/translations § Proper noun.

Noun

sun (plural suns)

1. (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
2. The light and warmth which is received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
3. (figuratively) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.

   • For the Lord God is a sun and shield.

   • 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike

     I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.

4. (chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
   • , p.184 (republished 1832):

     whilst many an hunger-starved poor creature pines in the street, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from sun to sun, sick and ill, weary, full of pain and grief, is in great distress and sorrow of heart.
5. A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
6. A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
7. The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
8. (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Translations

See sun/translations § Noun.

Verb

sun (third-person singular simple present suns, present participle sunning, simple past and past participle sunned)

1. (transitive) To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.

   Synonym: apricate
2. (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
3. (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
4. (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.

Hypernyms

• bask

Derived terms

• sun up

Translations

See sun/translations § Verb.

See also

Etymology 2

From Japanese ? (sun).

Noun

sun (plural sun)

1. A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).

Etymology 3

Noun

sun (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”)

Further reading

• sun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sun at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'uns, NUS, UNS, USN, uns

Bambara

Etymology 1

Noun

sun

1. trunk (of tree)

Usage notes

Often used in a compound with the name of a tree to indicate that kind of tree.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ?????? (?awm, “fasting; abstaining from food, drink, and sex”), from Classical Syriac ????? (?awm??)

Noun

sun

1. fasting (during the month of Ramadan)

Noun

sun

1. to fast

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• sunn, suun

Etymology

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”). Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

Noun

sun

1. (Sauris) son

References

• “sun” 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

Cimbrian

Noun

sun m

1. (Tredici Comuni) son

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sun/, [?s?un]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: sun

Etymology 1

Possibly from etymology 2, originally as a replacement of mun, eroded variant of muin which was reinterpreted as the genitive singular of mä.

Conjunction

sun

1. (coordinating) A coordinating conjunction expressing generality.

   En nyt jouda, kun tässä on sitä sun tätä tekemistä.

   I don't have time for that because I have this and that to do (miscellaneous stuff/things to do).

   Lautanen oli täynnä makaroonilaatikkoa, makkaraa, salaattia, perunamuussia sun muuta pöperöä.

   The plate was full of macaroni casserole, sausage, salad, mashed potatoes and other grub.

Etymology 2

From the standard language form sinun (“your, yours”)

Pronoun

sun

1. (colloquial) genitive of sä

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sonus.

Noun

sun m (plural suns)

1. sound
2. music

Synonyms

• (music): musiche

Related terms

• sunâ

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sonë.

Pronoun

sun

1. he, she, it

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zoen (“kiss”), from Middle Dutch zoene, soen, soene, swoene (“reconciliation; atonement; kiss”), from Old Dutch *s?na, *sw?na (“reconciliation; peace; agreement”), from Proto-Germanic *s?n?, *sw?n? (“appeasement; reconciliation; atonement; sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *sw?-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?n]
• Hyphenation: sun

Noun

sun (first-person possessive sunku, second-person possessive sunmu, third-person possessive sunnya)

1. kiss, a touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.

   Synonym: ciuman

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sun” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kaingang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??udn/

Verb

sun

1. To warm oneself by staying near a fire.

References

Ladin

Preposition

sun

1. on, over
2. in

Verb

sun

1. Alternative form of son

Manchu

Romanization

sun

1. Romanization of ???

Mandarin

Romanization

sun

1. Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sùn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

sun

1. Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

Etymology 2

Noun

sun

1. Alternative form of sone (“son”)

Mimi of Nachtigal

Etymology

Similar to (and likely a borrowing of, or possibly the lender of) the word used for water in the "third Mimi" language, Amdang sunu, which in turn is (per Starostin) "most likely cognate with Fur su?n ‘waterhole, well’".

Noun

sun

1. water

References

• George Starostin, On Mimi

Min Nan

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sand, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz. Cognates include West Frisian sân.

Noun

sun n (plural sun)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) sand

Derived terms

Okinawan

Verb

sun

1. romanized of ??

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sonr, sunr, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz.

Noun

sun m (nominative plural synær)

1. son

Descendants

• Danish: søn

Quiripi

Noun

sun

1. (Unquachog) stone

References

• 1791, Thomas Jefferson, A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians

Romanian

Etymology 1

Verb

sun

1. first-person singular present indicative of suna
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of suna

Etymology 2

Probably from Latin sonus, or from the verb suna.

Noun

sun n (plural sunuri)

1. (archaic) sound

Synonyms

• sunet

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunn?, from Proto-Germanic *sunn?, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh?wen- (“sun”), oblique stem *sóh?wl? (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n/, /s?n/

Noun

sun (plural suns)

1. sun

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [sun??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?un??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??w??m??] ~ [s?w??m??]

Verb

sun

1. (intransitive) To shrink.
2. (transitive) To pull together.

   sun vai

   to pull one’s shoulders together

References

• "sun" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)