bone
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊn/Category:English 1-syllable words#BONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
- (General American) enPR: bōn, IPA(key): /boʊn/Category:English 1-syllable words#BONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /bəʉn/Category:English 1-syllable words#BONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /bɐʉn/Category:English 1-syllable words#BONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /bon/Category:English 1-syllable words#BONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
- (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA(key): /boːn/Category:English 1-syllable words#BONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
- Rhymes: -əʊnCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊn#BONECategory:Rhymes:English/əʊn/1 syllable#BONE
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#BONECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BONE bon, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#BONECategory:English terms derived from Old English#BONE bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BONECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BONE *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BONE *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bian, Biin, biinj (“bone; leg”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Details needed on where the "dollar" sense comes into this. Is that from gambling slang?”)Category:Requests for etymologies in English entries#BONE
Alternative forms
Noun

bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)Category:English lemmas#BONECategory:English nouns#BONECategory:English uncountable nouns#BONECategory:English countable nouns#BONECategory:English countable nouns#BONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#BONE) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
- Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#BONE) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 275, column 1:
- No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- A bonefish.
- 2019, Scott Sadil, “Tres Bocas”, in California Fly Fisher:
- The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.(Should we delete(+) this sense?)Category:Requests for deletion in English entries#BONE
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- bone:
- (USCategory:American English#BONE, informalCategory:English informal terms#BONE, in the plural) A dollar.
- (American footballCategory:en:Football (American)#BONE, informalCategory:English informal terms#BONE) The wishbone formation.
- (slangCategory:English slang#BONE) An erect penis; a boner.
- 2003, “Let Me Watch”, in Vaudeville Villain, performed by Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly:
- Speakin' on the phone, for hours on end / On the bone from just listenin', and then:Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- (slangCategory:English slang#BONE, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- Let's head to the casino and roll them bones!Category:English terms with usage examples#BONE
- 1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:
- The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- (slangCategory:English slang#BONE) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- 2006, Sean Conway, Gillis Huckabee, page 140:
- In between sets I took her outside, sat against a fence near the dumpster, and smoked a bone with her.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- (figurative) A reward.
- 1979, Pink Floyd, Nobody Home:
- When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone inCategory:English terms with quotations#BONE
Synonyms
- os (medicine)
- (rigid parts of a corset): rib, stay
- (reward): doggy treat
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- aitchbone
- alveolar bone
- armbone
- auditory bone
- backbone
- barebone
- breastbone
- calf bone
- cannon bone
- capitate bone
- carpal bone
- cheekbone
- chevron bone
- coffin bone
- collarbone
- cramp bone
- crazy bone
- cuboid bone
- cuneiform bone
- cuttlebone
- cuttlefish bone
- dentary bone
- dermal bone
- dog bone
- dragonbone
- dry bone
- earbone
- elbow bone
- epipubic bone
- ethmoidal bone
- ethmoid bone
- exercise bone
- featherbone
- fingerbone
- fishbone
- footbone
- forearm bone
- frontal bone
- funny bone
- hamate bone
- haunch bone
- heel bone
- herringbone
- hip bone
- huckle bone
- hyoid bone
- incisive bone
- inferior turbinate bone
- innominate bone
- intermediate cuneiform bone
- jawbone
- keep the bones green
- knucklebone
- lacrimal bone
- lateral cuneiform bone
- legbone
- lingual bone
- long bone
- lunate bone
- malar bone
- marrowbone
- marsupial bone
- mastoid bone
- medial cuneiform bone
- membrane bone
- metacarpal bone
- nasal bone
- navicular bone
- neckbone
- occipital bone
- oracle bone
- otic bone
- palatine bone
- parietal bone
- penile bone
- penis bone
- pin bone
- pisiform bone
- pizza bone
- plate bone
- pneumatic bone
- point the bone
- pubic bone
- pull bone
- pulley bone
- quadrate bone
- ridgebone
- roofing bone
- rostral bone
- scaphoid bone
- semilunar bone
- sesamoid bone
- shinbone
- shoulder bone
- sit bone
- skullbone
- soup bone
- sphenoid bone
- splenial bone
- splint bone
- squamosal bone
- stirrup bone
- tailbone
- tarsal bone
- temporal bone
- tongue bone
- trapezium bone
- trapezoid bone
- triquetral bone
- turbinate bone
- vomer bone
- wishbone
- Wormian bone
- wristbone
- Y bone
- yellow bone
- zygomatic bone
Derived terms
- aitch-bone
- all skin and bones
- anklebone
- arm bone
- back-bone
- bad to the bone
- bag of bones
- bare-bones
- bladebone
- boneache
- bone age
- bone apple tea
- bone-ash, bone ash
- bonebed
- bone black
- boneblack
- bone box
- bone-cage
- bone cancer
- bone char
- bone-chilling
- bone china
- bone collector
- Bone Creek
- bone-cruncher
- bone-crunching
- bone-crushing dog
- boned
- bone-deep
- bone density
- bonedigger
- bonedog
- bonedome
- bone dry, bone-dry
- bone earth
- bone-eating snot flower worm
- bone fire, bone-fire
- bonefish
- bone folder
- bone graft
- bone-grubber
- bone-hard, bone hard
- bonehead
- bone head
- boneheaded
- boneheadedly
- boneheadedness
- bonehouse
- bone-house wasp
- bone hurting juice
- bone idle, bone-idle
- bone-in
- bone in her teeth
- bone in one's body
- bone in the throat
- bonejarring
- bone lace
- boneless
- bonelessness
- bonelet
- bonelike
- bone loss
- bone marrow
- bone mass
- bone meal
- bone-meal
- bone mineral density
- bone morphogenetic protein
- bone-mouth
- bone of contention
- bone oil
- bone-on
- bone-picker
- bone pointing
- boner
- bone ridge
- bone scan
- boneseed
- boneseeker
- bone-seeker, bone seeker
- boneset
- bonesetter
- bonesetting
- bone-shaker, boneshaker
- bone-shaking, boneshaking
- bone-shakingly
- Bonesman
- bone smashing
- bone spavin
- bonespo
- bone spur
- bone-straight
- bone structure
- bone tired
- bone-tired
- bone tissue
- bone to pick
- bone turquoise
- bone up
- boneware
- Bone Wars
- bone wax
- bonework
- boneyard
- bony
- breakbone
- break-bones
- breast bone
- bred-in-the-bone
- breed in the bone
- brittle bone disease
- broken bones
- browbone
- canon bone
- cavalry bone
- chavel-bone
- cheek bone, cheek-bone
- chew the meat and spit out the bones
- chickenboner
- chill to the bone
- chinbone
- close to the bone
- collar-bone, collar bone
- cross-bone
- cross-bones, crossbones
- cuboidal bone
- cut to the bone
- devil's bones
- dog and bone
- dogbone
- dog bone spanner
- dog bone wrench
- dry as a bone
- falling off the bone
- flesh and bone
- flesh and bones
- flesh on the bones
- folding-bone, folding bone
- glass bone disease
- God's bones
- good-luck bone
- greenbone
- hambone
- haunch-bone
- have a bone in one's leg
- have a bone to pick
- H bone
- heelbone
- herring-bone
- holy bone
- in one's bones
- intrabone
- ischemic bone necrosis
- Ishango bone
- jaw-bone
- jaw bone
- jump on someone's bones
- jump someone's bones
- keep one's bone green
- knitbone
- lachrymal bone
- lazy bones
- like a bulldog with a bone
- like a dog with a bone
- Longbone
- lucky-bone
- make no bones about
- make old bones
- make one's bones
- meat on the bones
- membrane-bone
- Murphy-Lane bone skid
- Napier's bones
- natch-bone
- near the bone
- no bones about it
- nonbone
- oracle bone script
- Paget's disease of bone
- pare to the bone
- pedal bone
- phantom bone disease
- ploughshare bone
- prone-bone
- radial bone
- rag and bone man, rag-and-bone man
- rag-and-bone shop, rag and bone shop
- rattle the bones
- raven's bone
- raw-head and bloody-bones
- redbone
- rickle of bones
- rider's bone
- ridge-bone
- ringbone
- ring-bone
- romancing the bone
- ruel-bone
- sawbones
- shackle-bone
- shankbone, shank-bone
- sharebone
- sidebone
- skin and bone
- skin and bones
- skull and bones
- Smallbone
- soaked to the bone
- soaked to the bones
- spadebone
- speal-bone
- splinter bone
- spoke-bone
- St. Hugh's bones
- sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
- tail bone
- tau bone
- t-bone
- T-bone
- T-bone steak
- telling bone
- thighbone
- throw a bone to
- throw someone a bone
- tickle someone's funny bone
- Tilly bone
- to one's bone
- to one's bones
- toss a bone to, toss someone a bone
- to the bone
- to the bones
- triquetrum bone
- twitter-bone
- tympanic bone
- underbone
- what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh
- whirl-bone
- wishing bone
- with every bone in one's body
- work oneself to the bone
- work one's fingers to the bone
Translations
Adjective
bone (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#BONECategory:English adjectives#BONECategory:English uncomparable adjectives#BONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Translations
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)Category:English lemmas#BONECategory:English verbs#BONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- Synonyms: debone, unbone
- Coordinate terms: gutCategory:English links with manual fragments#BONE, skinCategory:English links with manual fragments#BONE
- 1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44:
- One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73:
- The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food, page 379:
- Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice, page 38:
- Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- To fertilize with bone.
- 1859 July 9, The Economist, page 758:
- He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- To put whalebone into.
- 1871, Figure-Training:
- Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- (vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#BONE, slangCategory:English slang#BONE, usually of a man, ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BONECategory:English intransitive verbs#BONE) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
- Related terms: boned, bonerCategory:English links with manual fragments#BONE
- 1894, Catullus, translated by Leonard C. Smithers, The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus, section 58:
- O Memmius, well and slowly did you bone me, supine, day by day, with the whole of that beam.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:
- We’re bonin’ on the dark blocks / Wearin’ out the shocks, wettin’ up the dashboard clockCategory:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy:
- Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona / From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone herCategory:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 153:
- We were sitting in the student union between classes, and I had just been trying to decide which one of them I was gonna bone first that night.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 2006, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics), Pariah:
- […] These cats stay rapping about cars they don't own / I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don't boneCategory:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 2007, Stacey Deddo, The Elimination Special, Part II: The Elimination (Drawn Together), season 3, episode 14, spoken by The Jew Producer (James Arnold Taylor), via Comedy Central:
- When we return we'll find out which one of our six remaining contestants' dreams will be totally ruined, like your mom's reputation after I bone her face.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 2007, Reno Mounties (Reno 911!), season 4, episode 11, spoken by Deputy Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong), via Comedy Central:
- I swear on the good book that if you pull through, I will bone Travis Junior.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 89:
- I'd been boning French chicks for a while now and was always shocked to see how many able-bodied young white women had no qualms about being on welfare.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#BONE, datedCategory:English dated terms#BONE, in Aboriginal culture) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
- 1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48:
- “You don’t know!”, Bony echoed. “You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can’t tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater”.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- (usually with "up") To study.
- 1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums:
- “I know it. You do not study.” “What’s the use of boning all the time! I wasn’t cut out for it.”Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- c. 1980, F. van Zy, SADF National Service (1979-1980), archived from the original on 22 June 2004:
- […] the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits […]Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- 1950, Asphalt Jungle:
- Dix Handley: Don’t bone me!Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
Cobby: Now look, I’m not boning you, Dix—
Dix: Did I ever welsh?
Cobby: Nobody said you did—
Dix: You just boned me!
Derived terms
Translations
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Adverb
bone (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#BONECategory:English adverbs#BONECategory:English uncomparable adverbs#BONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- Used before an adjective as an intensifier
- 1979 December 22, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 18:
- GWF, well almost anyway, 40, bone-lonely, desperately needs a friend in Southern Maine.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
See also
Further reading
Etymology 2
UnknownCategory:English terms with unknown etymologies#BONE; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)Category:English lemmas#BONECategory:English verbs#BONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BONE, slangCategory:English slang#BONE) To apprehend, steal.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, page 127:
- “Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned, and who you had boned it from.”Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 1915, William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay:
- […] as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
- 1936, J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Root of the Boot”, in Songs for the Philologists:
- But troll's old seat is much the same,Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
And the bone he boned from its owner
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 802:
- Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
Etymology 3
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#BONECategory:English terms derived from French#BONE bornoyer (“to look at with one eye, to sight”), from borgne (“one-eyed”).
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)Category:English lemmas#BONECategory:English verbs#BONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- (carpentryCategory:en:Carpentry#BONE, masonryCategory:en:Masonry#BONE, surveyingCategory:en:Surveying#BONE) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.[1]
- 1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary, page 151:
- Joiners, &c., bone their work with two straight edges.Category:English terms with quotations#BONE
Etymology 4
Clipping of tromboneCategory:English clippings#BONE.
Noun
bone (plural bones)Category:English lemmas#BONECategory:English nouns#BONECategory:English countable nouns#BONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
References
- ↑ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Bone”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Anagrams
Category:en:Dominoes#BONECategory:en:Elopomorph fish#BONECategory:en:Genitalia#BONECategory:en:Sex#BONECategory:en:Skeleton#BONECategory:en:Whites#BONEAfrikaans
Noun
boneCategory:Afrikaans non-lemma forms#BONECategory:Afrikaans noun forms#BONECategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Danish
Etymology 1
From Low GermanCategory:Danish terms borrowed from Low German#BONECategory:Danish terms derived from Low German#BONE and Middle Low GermanCategory:Danish terms derived from Middle Low German#BONE bōnen, from Old SaxonCategory:Danish terms derived from Old Saxon#BONE *bōnian, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Danish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BONE *bōnijan (“to polish”).
Pronunciation
Verb
bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)Category:Danish lemmas#BONECategory:Danish verbs#BONECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- to polish
Etymology 2
Derived from the noun bon (“receipt”), from FrenchCategory:Danish terms derived from French#BONE bon (“voucher, ticket”).
Pronunciation
Verb
bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)Category:Danish lemmas#BONECategory:Danish verbs#BONECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Esperanto
Etymology
From bona (“good”) + -eCategory:Esperanto terms suffixed with -e#BONE.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbone/Category:Esperanto 2-syllable words#BONECategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#BONEAudio 1: (file)
Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#BONEAudio 2: (file)
Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#BONEAudio 3: (file) - Rhymes: -oneCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/one#BONECategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/one/2 syllables#BONE
- Syllabification: bo‧ne
Adverb
boneCategory:Esperanto lemmas#BONECategory:Esperanto adverbs#BONECategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Interjection
boneCategory:Esperanto lemmas#BONECategory:Esperanto interjections#BONECategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Further reading
- “bone”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “bone”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
Hadza
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from SukumaCategory:Hadza terms borrowed from Sukuma#BONECategory:Hadza terms derived from Sukuma#BONE βũne (“four (class XIV)”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
bone m (masc. plural bunibii, fem. boneko, fem. plural bonebee)Category:Hadza lemmas#BONECategory:Hadza adjectives#BONECategory:Hadza entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Category:hts:Numbers#BONEIdo
Etymology
From EsperantoCategory:Ido terms derived from Esperanto#BONE bone (“well”), bona (“good”) + -eCategory:Ido terms suffixed with -e (adverb)#BONE.
Pronunciation
Adverb
boneCategory:Ido lemmas#BONECategory:Ido adverbs#BONECategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- well
- 2008, Margrit Kennedy, Pekunio sen interesti ed inflaciono, tr. by Alfred Neussner of Interest and Inflation Free Money, page 50:
- To pruvas maxim bone nia bonstando, se ica sumo distributesus nur proxime pro-porcionale.
- This would have served well as a proof of our prosperity if it were evenly distributed. (Original English, page 29)
- 2008, Margrit Kennedy, Pekunio sen interesti ed inflaciono, tr. by Alfred Neussner of Interest and Inflation Free Money, page 50:
Related terms
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
bone fCategory:Italian lemmas#BONECategory:Italian nouns#BONECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Italian feminine nouns#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Adjective
boneCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#BONECategory:Italian adjective forms#BONECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Latin
Adjective
boneCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#BONECategory:Latin adjective forms#BONECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
References
- “bone”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bone”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “bone”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Lindu
Noun
boneCategory:Lindu lemmas#BONECategory:Lindu nouns#BONECategory:Lindu entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Category:Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BONECategory:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BONECategory:Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#BONEFrom Old DutchCategory:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch#BONECategory:Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch#BONE *bōna, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#BONECategory:Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BONE *baunu.
Noun
bône fCategory:Middle Dutch lemmas#BONECategory:Middle Dutch nouns#BONECategory:Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Middle Dutch feminine nouns#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Inflection
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bône | bônen |
| accusative | bône | bônen |
| genitive | bône, bônen | bônen |
| dative | bône, bônen | bônen |
Descendants
- Dutch: boon
- Afrikaans: boon
- → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
- Berbice Creole Dutch: bono
- Negerhollands: bontśi, boontje, boonschi (from the diminutive)
- → Virgin Islands Creole: bontsi (archaic)
- Sranan Tongo: bonki
- → Caribbean Hindustani: bongki
- → Caribbean Javanese: bontyis (from the diminutive plural)
- → Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
- → Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
- → Papiamentu: bonchi, boontsje (from the diminutive)
- Afrikaans: boon
- Limburgish: boean
Further reading
- “bone”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bone”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
boneCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BONECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- (West MidlandCategory:West Midland Middle English#BONE) alternative form of bane
Etymology 2
Noun
boneCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BONECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- alternative form of bon
Etymology 3
Noun
boneCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BONECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- alternative form of boon
Etymology 4
Adjective
boneCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BONECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- alternative form of boon
Etymology 5
Adjective
boneCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BONECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- alternative form of boun
Middle High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German bōna.
Category:Middle High German terms derived from Old High German#BONECategory:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#BONECategory:Middle High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#BONECategory:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#BONECategory:Middle High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#BONECategory:Middle High German terms inherited from Old High German#BONECategory:Middle High German entries with etymology texts#BONEPronunciation
- IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈboːnə/Category:Middle High German terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
Noun
bōne fCategory:Middle High German lemmas#BONECategory:Middle High German nouns#BONECategory:Middle High German entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Middle High German feminine nouns#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Declension
Related terms
Descendants
References
- Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “BÔNE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
- Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “bōne”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition
Neapolitan
Adjective
bone f plCategory:Neapolitan non-lemma forms#BONECategory:Neapolitan adjective forms#BONECategory:Neapolitan entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
Verb
boneCategory:Northern Sami non-lemma forms#BONECategory:Northern Sami verb forms#BONECategory:Northern Sami entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- inflection of botnit:
Old French
Pronunciation
Adjective
boneCategory:Old French non-lemma forms#BONECategory:Old French adjective forms#BONECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
Turkish

Etymology
From FrenchCategory:Turkish terms derived from French#BONE bonnet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo.ˈne/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#BONE
- Hyphenation: bo‧ne
Noun
bone (definite accusative boneyi, plural boneler)Category:Turkish lemmas#BONECategory:Turkish nouns#BONECategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
- (kıyafetler) bathing cap, swim cap, swimming cap.
- Yüzücünün yarışta taktığı bone çıktı.
- The swimming cap that the swimmer wore during the race came off.
Declension
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Further reading
bone on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr
Venetan
Adjective
boneCategory:Venetan non-lemma forms#BONECategory:Venetan adjective forms#BONECategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#BONECategory:Pages with entries#BONECategory:Pages with 17 entries#BONE
