don
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) sir, master, lord
- A title of respect to a man, prefixed to first names
Etymology
Derived from Latin dom, dominus (master, lord, head of household) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (house, home, a house), *dem- (build, house).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dem-
Gloss
build, house
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
建
Emoji
⛩️ ⛪️ 🏚️ 🏛️ 🏟️ 🏠️ 🏡 🏢 🏥 🏦 🏨 🏩 🏪 🏫 🏬 🏭️ 🏯 🏰 💒 🕋 🕌 🕍
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- domestic English
- domesticate English
- domicile English
- dominus English
- don English
- donnish English
- donnism English
- donship English
- redon English
- *domincellus Latin
- *dominārium Latin
- *domnicellus Latin
- *domniārium Latin
- dom Latin
- domesticus Latin
- domina Latin
- dominicus Latin
- dominium Latin
- domino Latin
- dominor Latin
- dominus Latin
- dominātus Latin
- dominō Latin
- domnus Latin
- domus Latin
- vostra, voster Latin
- don Italian
- donno Italian
- domestiquer French
- domino French
- mayordomo Spanish, Castilian
- δάμαρ Ancient Greek
- δέμνιον Ancient Greek
- δεσπότης Ancient Greek
- δόμος Ancient Greek
- δῶ Ancient Greek
- δῶμα Ancient Greek
- πρόδομος Ancient Greek
- *dem- Proto-Indo-European
- *dem-h₁-, *demh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *domos Proto-Indo-European
- *déms pótis Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European
- *temaną Proto-Germanic
- *timrijaną Proto-Germanic
- *timrą Proto-Germanic
- *tumþiz Proto-Germanic
- दम् Sanskrit
- timbr Old Norse
- *domъ Proto-Slavic
- don Czech
- dumneavoastră Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- տուն Old Armenian
- dominant Middle French
- צימער Yiddish
- *dáma Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *domanos Proto-Italic
- *domos Proto-Italic
- 𐬛𐬀𐬨 Avestan
- don Jamaican Creole