# onion
## English
### Alternative forms

* onyon (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English onyoun, oynoun, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem, accusative of ūniō (“onion, large pearl”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as yne, ynnelēac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Also displaced Middle English knelek (literally “knee-leek”) and the inherited term ramsons.
* (soy): Stems from a 4chan word filter which changes the word soy to onions. The word filter was implemented in relation to the "alpha onion eater" meme, which is depicted as the direct opposite of the soy boy.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈʌn.jən/
** Audio (London):(file)
** Audio (California):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: /ˈʌŋ.jɪn/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɐŋ.jən/, /ˈɐn.jən/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈaŋ.jən/, /ˈan.jən/
* (India, spelling pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒnɪ.jən/
* (dialectal, obsolete) IPA: /ˈɪŋ.ən/, /ˈɪn.jən/
* Rhymes: -ʌnjən

### Noun

onion (plural onions)
* A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
** 1944, Oregon. Agricultural experiment station, Circular of Information - Issues 323-395, page 3:Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
** 2021, Rose Ray, Caro Langton, Into Green: Everyday Ways to Find and Lose Yourself in Nature, page 62:To get started, how about creating an edible window box? Sowed in the spring, salad seeds like radish, lettuce and spring onion will germinate so quickly that you'll be harvesting a crop in a month or two.
* The bulb of such a plant.
** 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
    dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
** 2015 September 4, “In Minnesota’s Iron Range, Midwestern With a Modern Twist”, in The New York Times‎:Goulash, a local favorite, was brought up-to-date with seared grass-fed rib-eye, stewed cippolini onions and roasted cherry tomatoes.
* A plant of the genus Allium as a whole. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (slang, of a drug) An ounce.
* (obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
* (obsolete, slang) A watch-seal.
** 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:[…] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; / O was an Onion, possessed by a swell; / P was a Pannie, done niblike and well. […]
* Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”)
* (4chan, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.

#### Synonyms

* (vegetable): violet (UK dialect)

#### Derived terms

* autumn onion (Allium stellatum)
* baby onion
* Bangalore rose onion
* Bermuda onion
* blooming onion
* bog onion
* Bristol onion (Allium sphaerocephalon)
* brown onion
* bucky onion
* bulb onion (Allium cepa)
* bulge in the onion bag
* bulge the onion bag
* bunching onion (Allium fistulosum)
* button onion
* Canada onion (Allium canadense)
* Cape poison onion (Ornithoglossum glaucum)
* Chinese onion
* cipolline onion
* climbing onion Bowiea volubilis)
* coast flatleaf onion (Allium falcifolium)
* cocktail onion
* common onion (Allium cepa)
* crow onion (Allium vineale)
* desert onion
* dry onion
* eat the onion
* Egyptian onion (Allium × proliferum, syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum)
* flaming onion
* flowering onion (Allium neopolitanum)
* French onion soup
* garlion
* glass onion
* green onion
* Hooker's onion (Allium acuminatum
* is someone cutting onions
* Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum)
* jeweled onion (Allium serra)
* long green onion (Allium fistulosum)
* long onion
* Maori onion
* multiplier onion (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)
* nodding onion (Allium cernuum)
* off one's onion
* Oklahoma onion burger
* one-leaf onion (Allium unifolium)
* onion bag
* onion booty
* onion bottle
* onion bread
* onion couch
* onion dome
* onion downy mildew (Peronospora destructor)
* onion eelworm (Ditylenchus dipsaci)
* onion fish
* onion flute
* onion fly (Delia antiqua)
* onion grass (Allium vineale)
* onion Johnny
* onion louse (Thrips tabaci)
* onion maggot (Delia antiqua)
* onion mildew
* onion network
* onion paper
* onion powdery mildew (Leveillula taurica)
* onion red
* onion ring
* onion roll
* onion router
* onion routing
* onion scab (Colletotrichum circinans)
* onion seed
* onion service
* onion skin
* onion-skinned
* onion skinning
* onion smudge (Colletotrichum circinans)
* onion smut (Urocystis cepulae)
* onion snow
* onion stick
* onion straw
* onion thrips (Thrips tabaci)
* onion weed (Nuthoscordum inodorum)
* oniony
* Onion yellow dwarf virus
* Pacific mountain onion (Allium validum)
* Pacific onion (Allium validum)
* pearl onion
* peel back the onion
* peel the onion
* pom-pom onion (Allium serra)
* potato onion (Allium cepa var. aggregatum)
* prairie onion (Allium stellatum)
* purple onion
* quantum onion
* red onion
* red-skinned onion (Allium haematochiton)
* redskin onion (Allium haematochiton)
* salad onion (Allium fistulosum)
* scytheleaf onion (Allium falcifolium)
* sea onion (Urginea maritima)
* serrated onion (Allium serra)
* shore onion (Allium schoenoprasum)
* Siberian onion
* silverskin onion
* Spanish onion
* spring onion (Allium fistulosum)
* spunion
* swamp onion (Allium validum)
* sweet onion
* table onion
* take out an onion
* tapertip onion (Allium acuminatum)
* topset onion (Allium × proliferum, syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum)
* tree onion (Allium × proliferum, syn. Allium cepa var. viviparum)
* twincrest onion (Allium bisceptrum)
* Vidalia onion
* walking onion
* walking onoin (Allium × proliferum)
* Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
* white onion
* wild onion
* winter onion
* yard onion
* yellow onion

#### Descendants

* Bislama: anian
* Tok Pisin: anian
* → Maori: aniana

#### Translations
### See also

* chive
* scallion
* shallot

### References

* ↑ Stanley, Oma (1937) “I. Vowel Sounds in Stressed Syllables”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 12, page 27.
* ↑ Bingham, Caleb (1808) “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎, 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 75.

## Welsh
### Noun

onion m (singulative onionyn)
* Alternative form of wynwyn (“onions”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “wynwyn, wnion, winion, winiwn, &c.”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies