son
Old French
/son/
determiner
Definitions
- his/hers/its (third-person singular possessive)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin sum (I am, be, am, exist), suus, suum.
Origin
Latin
suus, suum
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abessive English
- sonic English
- soniferous English
- unison English
- *sum Latin
- absum Latin
- adsum Latin
- armisonus Latin
- civis romanus sum Latin
- desum Latin
- fluentisonus Latin
- insum Latin
- intersum Latin
- obsum Latin
- praesum Latin
- prosum Latin
- sonabilis Latin
- sonipes Latin
- sonivius Latin
- sonus Latin
- stātus Latin
- subsum Latin
- sum Latin
- supersum Latin
- suum Latin
- suus, suum Latin
- undisonus Latin
- sonetto Italian
- sono Italian
- suono Italian
- infra-son French
- infrason French
- son French
- sondit French
- sonore French
- sonothèque French
- ultrason French
- seigo Spanish, Castilian
- son Spanish, Castilian
- soy Spanish, Castilian
- su Spanish, Castilian
- sónico Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European
- *sed- Proto-Indo-European
- *sewos Proto-Indo-European
- son Old English
- esence Czech
- ester Old French
- estre Old French
- sono Esperanto
- ser Catalan, Valencian
- fi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sunt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sôn Welsh
- son Old Irish
- san Norman
- son Middle French
- seer Old Portuguese
- son Old Portuguese
- sõo Old Portuguese
- escu Aromanian
- son Aromanian
- *ezom Proto-Italic
- *sowos Proto-Italic
- easser Romansh
- esser Romansh
- jessi Friulian
- sun Friulian
- esser Old Occitan
- son Old Occitan
- sonet Old Occitan
- sueno Old Spanish
- sonu Sicilian
- èssiri Sicilian
- èsare Venetian
- èser Venetian
- són Ligurian
- saite Dalmatian
- so Mauritian Creole
- essere Sardinian
- esse Neapolitan
- èssere Neapolitan
- ièsi Istriot
- étre Franco-Provençal
- esse Piedmontese
- êser Emilian
- sou Old Catalan
- sou Leonese
- săm Megleno-Romanian