suonare
Italian (Fiorentino)
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to play an instrument
- (transitive) to sound
- (transitive) to ring
- (intransitive) ; to honk to use a car horn
Etymology
Inherited from Latin sonāre (make sound, make a sound) derived from Proto-Indo-European *swen- (resound, sound, make a sound).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*swen-
Gloss
resound, sound, make a sound
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
音
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sonāre Latin
- sonō Latin
- sonata Italian
- suonabile Italian
- suonatore Italian
- sonner French
- sonneur French
- sonador Spanish, Castilian
- sonante Spanish, Castilian
- sonar Spanish, Castilian
- *swen- Proto-Indo-European
- *swenh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *sundaz Proto-Germanic
- *swanaz Proto-Germanic
- *swin- Proto-Germanic
- स्वनति Sanskrit
- svanr Old Norse
- soner Old French
- soni Esperanto
- suna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sõar Old Portuguese
- sunâ Friulian
- sonar Old Occitan
- sonar Old Spanish
- sunari Sicilian
- sonar Venetian
- sunâ Ligurian
- sonur Dalmatian
- sunnà Neapolitan