onion

== English == === Alternative forms === onyon (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English onyoun, oynoun, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem, accusative of ūniō (“onion”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as yne, ynnelēac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Displaced 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(key): /ˈʌn.jən/ (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈʌn.jɪn/, (nonstandard) /ˈʌŋ.jɪn/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɐn.jən/, (nonstandard) /ˈɐŋ.jən/ (South Asia) IPA(key): /ˈɔnɪjən/ (dialectal, obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈɪŋ.ən/, /ˈɪn.jən/ Rhymes: -ʌnjən === Noun === onion (plural onions) A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. Coordinate terms: wild onion, spring onion (Welsh onion sense) 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. Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa. Hyponyms: spring onion, wild onion (slang) Of a drug, an ounce. (obsolete baseball slang) A ball. (obsolete, slang) A watch-seal. Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”). (4chan slang, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype. ==== Synonyms ==== (vegetable): violet (UK dialect) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Bislama: anian Tok Pisin: anian → Māori: aniana ==== Translations ==== === See also === chive scallion shallot === References === == Welsh == === Noun === onion m (singulative onionyn) alternative form of wynwyn (“onions”) === Mutation === === 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