bon
Old French
/bon/
adj
Definitions
- good not evil
- good not of poor quality
Etymology
Inherited from Latin bonus (good, honest, kind) inherited from Proto-Italic *dwenos (good).
Origin
Proto-Italic
*dwenos
Gloss
good
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
良, 善
Emoji
🦸 🦸♀️ 🦸♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bonnie English
- bonny English
- bonus English
- bene Latin
- bonitas Latin
- bonus Latin
- duonus Latin
- malus Latin
- perbonus Latin
- Bonoso Italian
- bonus Italian
- buono Italian
- bonus Dutch, Flemish
- bonus-malus Dutch, Flemish
- bon French
- bonbon French
- бонус Russian
- abonar Spanish, Castilian
- bonina Spanish, Castilian
- bonito Spanish, Castilian
- buen Spanish, Castilian
- buenas Spanish, Castilian
- bueno Spanish, Castilian
- *dew- Proto-Indo-European
- abonar Portuguese
- *boni Middle English
- bona Esperanto
- bun Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bona Ido
- bouan Norman
- bouon Norman
- bouonhoumme Norman
- bouôn Norman
- bouônnement Norman
- бонус Bulgarian
- abonsina Albanian
- bon Middle French
- tresbon Middle French
- bõo Old Portuguese
- bun Aromanian
- abonaçar Occitan
- abonir Occitan
- *dwenos Proto-Italic
- bonu Asturian
- bon Friulian
- bon Old Occitan
- bonu Sicilian
- bon Venetian
- bun Ligurian
- bun Dalmatian
- buna Dalmatian
- bueno Ladino
- בואינו Ladino
- bonussi Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- bon Walloon
- bon Bourguignon
- bon Ladin
- duenos Old Latin
- duonus Old Latin
- buono Mirandese
- bon Franco-Provençal
- boin Picard
- bur Istro-Romanian
- 𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌌 Faliscan