tone
Norwegian
noun-m1
Definitions
- a tone sound, colour etc.
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse tóni derived from Latin tonus (tone, sound, thunderclap, a sound) derived from Ancient Greek τόνος (tension, strain, tone, pitch, rope, a tone, chord, sound, something stretched).
Origin
Ancient Greek
τόνος
Gloss
tension, strain, tone, pitch, rope, a tone, chord, sound, something stretched
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
音
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tone English
- tono- English
- tonus English
- *tronus Latin
- tonus Latin
- tono Italian
- truono Italian
- tuono Italian
- toonkunst Dutch, Flemish
- ton French
- tonus French
- тон Russian
- тонус Russian
- tono Spanish, Castilian
- trueno Spanish, Castilian
- βαρύτονος Ancient Greek
- τόνος Ancient Greek
- ὀξύτονος Ancient Greek
- halv Norwegian Bokmål
- halvtone Norwegian Bokmål
- tom Portuguese
- tone Norwegian Nynorsk
- tóni Old Norse
- tone Danish
- ton Old French
- to Catalan, Valencian
- tro Catalan, Valencian
- trono Galician
- tun Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- τόνος Greek (modern)
- tôn Welsh
- toon Middle Dutch
- тонус Bulgarian
- Toun Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- trõo Old Portuguese
- ton Middle Low German
- tron Occitan
- tun Romansh
- truenu Asturian
- ton Friulian
- tronu Sicilian
- trón Ligurian
- ἄτονος gkm
- tun Dalmatian
- *tónos Proto-Hellenic