Contionary:bon

Niemish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /boːn/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baunō. There was a semantic shift from "bean" to "kidney".

Noun

⁰ bón n.f. zero-stem

1. kidney
2. bean (rare, not used for beans in the pod)

Declension

declension of bón (f-0h declension)
	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bón	bóna	bóns	bónos
genitive	bóns	bónos	bóna	bónsa
dative	bóne	bónse	bóną	bónę

See also

• fazúlj ("bean")
• bónka ("clitoris")

Intralingua

Etymology

from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

Pronunciation

IPA: /bon/

Adjective

1. good

Inflection

comparative melior, superlative le melior or le optime