bôn

See also: bon, Bon, BON, bón, bốn, bön, Bön, and bo's'n

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh bon, from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Old Irish bun (“base, bottom”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boːn/

Noun

bôn m (plural bonion or bonau)

  1. base, bottom
  2. trunk, stem
  3. (linguistics) stem
  4. (mathematics) base

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bôn fôn môn unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71
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