bon
French
adj
Definitions
- good
- right, correct
- (slang) sexy, hot, smoking hot
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French bon inherited from Old French bon (good) inherited from Latin bonus (good, honest, kind) inherited from Old Latin duenos (good) inherited from Proto-Italic *dwenos (good) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (revere, show favor, tie, show favour).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dew-
Gloss
revere, show favor, tie, show favour
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Bon Homme County English
- Bondye English
- bonanza English
- bonjour/hi English
- bontodger English
- bonus English
- born star English
- bouncer English
- bene Latin
- benedīcō Latin
- bonitas Latin
- bonitātem Latin
- bonus Latin
- duonus Latin
- malus Latin
- perbonus Latin
- Bon German
- Kassenbon German
- Bonoso Italian
- bonus Italian
- buono Italian
- bon Dutch, Flemish
- bonus Dutch, Flemish
- bonus-malus Dutch, Flemish
- cadeaubon Dutch, Flemish
- kortingsbon Dutch, Flemish
- pakbon Dutch, Flemish
- voedselbon Dutch, Flemish
- -isme French
- bon marché French
- bonasse French
- bonassement French
- bonbon French
- bonheur French
- bonifier French
- bonisme French
- bonjour French
- bonjour/hi French
- bonnard French
- bonne-main French
- bonté French
- heur French
- jour French
- main French
- marché French
- бон Russian
- бонист Russian
- бонус Russian
- abonar Spanish, Castilian
- bonanza Spanish, Castilian
- bonina Spanish, Castilian
- bonito Spanish, Castilian
- buen Spanish, Castilian
- buenas Spanish, Castilian
- bueno Spanish, Castilian
- δύω Ancient Greek
- ἄδυτον Ancient Greek
- *dew- Proto-Indo-European
- *dewk- Proto-Indo-European
- *dewtro- Proto-Indo-European
- *kars- Proto-Indo-European
- abonar Portuguese
- ボン Japanese
- 万歳 Japanese
- bonżurka Polish
- *boni Middle English
- bon Danish
- bon Old French
- bonté Old French
- bona Esperanto
- bun Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bon Indonesian
- bona Ido
- bouan Norman
- bouon Norman
- bouôn Norman
- бонус Bulgarian
- Bong Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- abonsina Albanian
- bon Middle French
- bonjour Middle French
- tresbon Middle French
- bõo Old Portuguese
- bun Aromanian
- buschur Alemannic German
- abonaçar Occitan
- abonir Occitan
- *dw-enos, *dwenos Proto-Italic
- *dwe-nos, *dwenos Proto-Italic
- *dwenos Proto-Italic
- *dweos Proto-Italic
- bon Slovene
- bonu Asturian
- បុង Central Khmer
- bon Friulian
- bon Old Occitan
- bonu Sicilian
- bon Venetian
- bun Ligurian
- bun Dalmatian
- buna Dalmatian
- bueno Ladino
- בואינו Ladino
- Bondye Haitian, Haitian Creole
- bon Haitian, Haitian Creole
- bonjou Haitian, Haitian Creole
- bonussi Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- bonzour Mauritian Creole
- bonzur Mauritian Creole
- bon Walloon
- bon Bourguignon
- bon Ladin
- *duened Old Latin
- duenos Old Latin
- duonus Old Latin
- bonjou Louisiana Creole French
- bonzur Seychellois Creole
- buono Mirandese
- bon Franco-Provençal
- boin Picard
- bonjou Antillean Creole
- bur Istro-Romanian
- 𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌌 Faliscan