# sone
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /soʊn/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /səʊn/
* Rhymes: -əʊn
* Homophones: Saône, sewn, sown

### Noun

sone (plural sones)
* (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
* Obsolete spelling of son.
** 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:Francis Eaton, and Sarah his wife, and Samuel their sone, a yong child.

### Anagrams

* ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, eons, neos, noes, nose, one's, ones

## German
### Alternative forms

* so'ne, sonne

### Etymology

The usage of this term for plurals stems from the similarity or identity of female singular and (gender unspecific) plural declensions in German grammar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɔnə/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: Sonne
* IPA: /ˈzoːnə/

### Pronoun

sone
* (colloquial) contraction of so eine (so, ein); nominative/accusative feminine singular of son, which is an alternative form of so'n
* Ungrammatical alternative form of solch in plural.

## Ladin
### Noun

sone m (plural soni)
* (Badiot) potato
    ciamp de soni ― potato field

#### Alternative forms

* patat (Gherdëina)
* pom de tera, patat (Fascian)

## Latin
### Noun

sone
* vocative singular of sonus

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *sunu, suno, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

### Noun

sōne m
* son

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Alternative forms

* suene

#### Derived terms

* adelsone
* erfsone
* godessone
* godsone
* magedensone
* moedersone
* oomssone
* papensone
* riddersone
* schoonsone
* soonlijc
* soonlike
* soonschap
* soonskint
* soonssone
* soonswijf
* stiefsone
* sustersone
* voestersone

#### Descendants

* Dutch: zoon
** Afrikaans: seun
** Jersey Dutch: zőn
* Limburgish: zoon, zoean
* West Flemish: zeune

### Further reading

* “sone (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English sunu, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

#### Alternative forms

* sune, sun, sonn, sonne, son

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsun(ə)/

#### Noun

sone (plural sones)
* son
** c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Joon ·i· 5:21, page 115v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:mi litle ſones kepe ȝe ȝou fro mawmetisMy little children, keep yourselves from idols.

##### Related terms

* godsone
* horesone
* sone in lawe
* sonely
* stepsone

##### Descendants

* English: son
* Scots: son

##### References

* “sǒne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old English sōna, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *sān(ō).

#### Alternative forms

* zone (Kent)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoːn(ə)/
* Rhymes: -oːn(ə)

#### Adverb

sone
* soon

##### Descendants

* English: soon
* Scots: sone, sune, schone
* Yola: zoon, soon

##### References

* “sọ̄ne, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

sone
* Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

Compare Turkish suna (“drake”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soːˈnɛ/

### Noun

sone m or f
* duck, drake
    Synonyms: miravî, werdek

### References

* Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “sone”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 558

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

### Noun

sone f or m (definite singular sona or sonen, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)
* zone

#### Derived terms

* eurosone
* faresone
* flyforbudssone
* gråsone
* klimasone
* tidssone

### References

* “sone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

### Noun

sone f (definite singular sona, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)
* zone

#### Derived terms

* eurosone
* faresone
* gråsone
* klimasone
* tidssone

### References

* “sone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *soneŋ (“to die”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈso.ne]

### Verb

sone
* (stative) to be dead
* (intransitive) to die

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Turkish
### Etymology

From French sonnet.

### Noun

sone (definite accusative soneyi, plural soneler)
* sonnet

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Noun

sone
* dative singular of son