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== Translingual == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from English one. ==== Alternative forms ==== One, ONE ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [ˈwan] ==== Noun ==== one (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 1. Synonym: unaone (ITU/IMO) === Etymology 2 === Clipping of English Oneida. ==== Symbol ==== one (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Oneida. ==== See also ==== Wiktionary’s coverage of Oneida terms === References === == English == === Alternative forms === wone (obsolete) (Arabic numeral): 1 (see for numerical forms in other scripts) (Roman numeral): I === Etymology 1 === From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”). Doublet of an. Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een). Verb form from Middle English onen. ==== Pronunciation ==== Around the 14th century, in southwest and western England, the word began to be pronounced with an initial /w/ (compare e.g. woak, Middle English wocke, a dialectal form of oak), and the spellings won and wone began to be found alongside on, one; the /w/, though initially nonstandard, had become the norm by the 18th century. In alone, atone, and only, as well as in the dialectal form un, 'un (and in none and no), the older pronunciations without /w/ are preserved, while once shows the same /w/. (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: wŭn, IPA(key): /wʌn/ Rhymes: -ʌn Homophone: won (etymology 1) (UK, dialectal) enPR: wŏn IPA(key): /wɒn/ Rhymes: -ɒn Homophones: wan, won (etymologies 2 and 3) (General Australian) IPA(key): /wɐn/, [wän] (obsolete) enPR: ōn, IPA(key): /oʊn/ (Early Modern) IPA(key): /ɔːn/, /uːn/ Rhymes: -əʊn Homophone: own (toe–tow merger) (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) IPA(key): /(w)ɵn/ (by analogy with Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu) or Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ)) ==== Numeral ==== one The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. ===== Synonyms ===== yan, yen (Northumbria, Cumbria) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== first (ordinal) none once onesome ===== Descendants ===== Bahamian Creole: wan Belizean Creole: wan Bislama: wan Gullah: one Jamaican Creole: wan Nigerian Pidgin: wọ́n, wọn Sranan Tongo: wanSaramaccan: wã́ Tok Pisin: wan → Atong (India): wan → Fanagalo: wan ===== Translations ===== ==== Pronoun ==== one (reflexive oneself, possessive adjective one's, plural ones) (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). Synonym: generic you (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing. ===== Usage notes ===== See they § Usage notes. ===== Synonyms ===== (unidentified person): you, they (in nominative personal case) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== one (plural ones) The digit or figure 1. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context (US) A one-dollar bill. I need some ones to make change. One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. A joke or amusing anecdote. An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer. An act of sexual intercourse. A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute). Synonyms: sort, type (followed by for) A person with a tendency to do something. Synonym: [the] type (followed by to) (archaic, ironic or endearing; following an adjective) A term of address. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. (dated, euphemistic or derogatory) A gay person. (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring. (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !, used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet ===== Synonyms ===== (mathematics: multiplicative identity): unity (US: one-dollar bill): single (sarcastic substitution for !): 1, eleven ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== one (not comparable) Of a period of time, being particular. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. Sole, only. Whole, entire. In agreement. The same. ==== Determiner ==== one A single. Antonyms: zero, no; a few, a couple of, a handful of, several; multiple, various; many, numerous; countless Hypernyms: any, some Used for emphasis in place of a Being a preeminent example. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== one (third-person singular simple present ones, present participle oning, simple past and past participle oned) (transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. ==== See also ==== Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages ==== References ==== “one”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. one on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 2 === Analogous to several senses of Hokkien 個／个 (ê) and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的 (de) or 個 / 个 (ê) as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge3). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Singapore) IPA(key): /wʌn/, [wɐn(˦)~wän(˦)], (at the end of sentences, before a pause) [wɐn(˦˧)~wän(˦˧)] ==== Particle ==== one (Singlish, Manglish) Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. Got almonds one. ― There are almonds in it. How come so heavy one ah? ― Why is it so heavy? Can one, why cannot? ― Of course you can. Need to take train one. ― You can only get there by taking the train. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something. My friend send one. ― It was sent by my friend. Who say one? ― Who said so? He ask one, not I ask one. ― It wasn’t me who asked, it was him. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else. Can easily get lost one, know? ― You can easily get lost here/there. A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun. The sell fruits one go home already. ― The fruit seller has gone home. ===== Usage notes ===== Etymology 2 sense 2 takes the place of the direct object at the end of sentences. ==== Pronoun ==== one (Singlish, less common) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. The bird that make a lot of noise one is gone already. ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === Jock Wong (2005), “‘Why You so Singlish One?’ A Semantic and Cultural Interpretation of the Singapore English Particle One”, in Language in Society, volume 34, number 2, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–275. Chow Siew Yeng, Francis Bond (June 2022), “Singlish Where Got Rules One? Constructing a Computational Grammar for Singlish”, in Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation‎[10], Paris: European Language Resources Association, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 July 2024, pages 5243–5250. === Anagrams === EON, NEO, NOE, Neo, Noe, eno-, eon, neo, neo- == Äiwoo == === Verb === one to hunt === References === Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283. == Hawaiian == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone (compare with Tahitian one, Māori one, Tongan one, Samoan one), from Proto-Oceanic *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay (compare with Chamorro unai, Javanese êni). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈo.ne/ === Noun === one sand silt ==== Derived terms ==== === References === == Japanese == === Romanization === one Rōmaji transcription of おね == Kustenau == === Noun === one water === References === Anales: Sección historico-filosófica (Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo), volume 1 (2), part 1 == Mangarevan == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay. === Noun === one sand == Māori == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Oceanic *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay (compare with Javanese êni). Compare with Malay pasir (e.g. in gula pasir) for sense of 'granule, granulated' === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈone/ [ˈɔnɛ] === Noun === one sand (archaic) mud Synonym: paru soil, earth Synonym: nuku beach Synonym: tātahi ==== Derived terms ==== === Adjective === one granular, granulated huka one: granulated sugar, caster sugar === References === === Further reading === Williams, Herbert William (1917), “one”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 279 “one” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN. == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Preposition ==== one alternative form of on ==== Adverb ==== one alternative form of on (“on”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Numeral ==== one alternative form of on === Etymology 3 === ==== Adverb ==== one alternative form of on (“singly”) === Etymology 4 === ==== Noun ==== one alternative form of hone (“delay”) === Etymology 5 === ==== Verb ==== one alternative form of onen === Etymology 6 === ==== Verb ==== one (Early Middle English) alternative form of unnen === Etymology 7 === ==== Noun ==== one alternative form of wone (“course”) === Etymology 8 === ==== Noun ==== one alternative form of oven === Etymology 9 === ==== Adjective ==== one alternative form of owen == Nigerian Pidgin == === Etymology === From English one. === Numeral === one alternative form of wọn === Article === one alternative form of wọn; a, an (precedes a noun) === Pronoun === one alternative form of wọn == Niuean == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay. === Noun === one sand gunpowder == Old Frisian == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *ēnu (“without”). Cognates include Old Saxon āno and Old Dutch *āna. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɔːne/ === Preposition === ône except ==== References ==== Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Polish one. The oblique case forms come from Proto-Slavic *ję̇. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɔ.nɛ/ Rhymes: -ɔnɛ Syllabification: o‧ne === Pronoun === one nvir they; nonvirile third-person plural pronoun, used for all groups not containing men ==== Declension ==== ==== See also ==== Appendix:Polish pronouns === Further reading === one in Polish dictionaries at PWN == Rarotongan == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay. === Noun === one sand == Samoan == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay. === Noun === one sand == Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ony, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énos. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ǒne/ Hyphenation: o‧ne === Pronoun === òne ? (Cyrillic spelling о̀не) they (nominative plural of òna (“she”)); nonvirile third-person plural pronoun, used for all groups not containing men masculine plural accusative of onaj ==== Declension ==== === See also === == Slovene == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔ̀ːnɛ/ === Pronoun === óne they (feminine plural, more than two) ==== Declension ==== Forms between parentheses indicate clitic forms; the main forms are used for emphasis. === See also === == Swahili == === Verb === -one subjunctive stem of -ona == Tahitian == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ne/ === Noun === one sand dust === References === “one” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy. == Tikopia == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay. === Noun === one sand == Tokelauan == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone (“sand”). Cognates include Hawaiian one and Samoan one. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈo.ne] Hyphenation: o‧ne === Noun === one beach of sand gunpowder ==== Derived terms ==== oneone === References === R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎[12], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 38 == Tuamotuan == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay. === Noun === one sand == Volapük == === Pronoun === one (dative singular of on) to it