pion
Indonesian
/pi.on/
nouns
Definitions
- (chess) pawn
- (physics) pion
- (figurative) pioneer
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch, Flemish pion (pawn) derived from French pion (pawn).
Origin
French
pion
Gloss
pawn
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- a-pion Dutch, Flemish
- b-pion Dutch, Flemish
- c-pion Dutch, Flemish
- d-pion Dutch, Flemish
- e-pion Dutch, Flemish
- f-pion Dutch, Flemish
- g-pion Dutch, Flemish
- h-pion Dutch, Flemish
- pion Dutch, Flemish
- vrijpion Dutch, Flemish
- morpion French
- pion French
- pionique French
- pionner French
- peon Old French
- pion Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- πιόνι Greek (modern)
- piono Ido
- piyon Turkish
- pion Afrikaans
- pion Middle French
- פּיאָן Yiddish