one

one

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English Online Dictionary. What means one‎? What does one mean?

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • One, ONE

Etymology

Borrowed from English one.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈwan]

Noun

one

  1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 1.
    Synonym: unaone (ITU/IMO)


References

English

Alternative forms

  • wone, o (both obsolete)
  • (Arabic numeral): 1 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
  • (Roman numeral): I

Etymology 1

From Middle English oon, on, oan, an, from Old English ān (“one”), from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“single, one”).

Cognate with Scots ae, ane, wan, yin (“one”); North Frisian ån (“one”); Saterland Frisian aan (“one”); West Frisian ien (“one”); Dutch een, één (“one”); German Low German een; German ein, eins (“one”); Danish en (“one”); Swedish en (“one”); Norwegian Nynorsk ein (“one”), Icelandic einn (“one”); Latin ūnus (“one”) (Old Latin oinos); Russian оди́н (odín), Spanish uno. Doublet of a, an, and Uno.

The use as an indefinite personal pronoun may have been influenced by unrelated French on, although the Germanic languages widely use cognates for the same sense (usually in non-subject function, but also in subject function, e.g. Luxembourgish een).

Verb form from Middle English onen.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wʌn/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /wan/, [wän]
    • Homophone: won (Etymology 1)
  • (UK) IPA(key): /wɒn/, /wʌn/
    • Rhymes: -ɒn
    • Homophone: won (Etymologies 2 and 3)
  • (US) enPR: wŭn, IPA(key): /wʌn/, [wən]
    • Rhymes: -ʌn, -ɒn
    • Homophones: wan, won (Etymology 1)
  • (obsolete) enPR: ōn, IPA(key): /oʊn/; (Early Modern) IPA(key): /ɔːn/

Around the 14th century, in southwest and western England, the word began to be pronounced with an initial /w/ (compare e.g. woak, Middle English wocke, a dialectal form of oak), and the spellings won and wone began to be found alongside on, one; the /w/, though initially nonstandard, had become the norm by the 18th century. In alone, atone, and only, as well as in the dialectal form un, 'un (and in none and no), the older pronunciations without /w/ are preserved, while once shows the same /w/.

Numeral

one

  1. The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
  2. (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
  3. (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
  4. (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
Synonyms
  • yan, yen (Northumbria, Cumbria)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • first (ordinal)
  • none
  • once
  • onesome
Descendants
  • Bahamian Creole: wan
  • Belizean Creole: wan
  • Bislama: wan
  • Gullah: one
  • Jamaican Creole: wan
  • Nigerian Pidgin: wọ́n, wọn
  • Sranan Tongo: wan
  • Tok Pisin: wan
  • → Atong (India): wan
  • → Fanagalo: wan
Translations

Pronoun

one (reflexive oneself, possessive adjective one’s, plural ones)

  1. (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
  2. (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
  4. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
    Synonym: generic you
  5. (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
Usage notes
  • See they § Usage notes.
Synonyms
  • (unidentified person): you, they (in nominative personal case)
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

one (plural ones)

  1. The digit or figure 1.
  2. (by ellipsis) Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
    1. (US) A one-dollar bill.
      I need some ones to make change.
    2. One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
    3. (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
    4. A joke or amusing anecdote.
  3. (followed by for) A person (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
  4. (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
  5. (dated, euphemistic or derogatory) A gay person.
  6. (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
  7. (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !. Used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
    • 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
    • 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
    • 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet
Synonyms
  • (mathematics: multiplicative identity): unity
  • (US: one-dollar bill): single
  • (sarcastic substitution for !): 1, eleven
Translations

Adjective

one (not comparable)

  1. Of a period of time, being particular.
  2. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
  3. Sole, only.
  4. Whole, entire.
  5. In agreement.
  6. The same.

Determiner

one

  1. A single.
    Antonyms: zero, no; a few, a couple of, a handful of, several; multiple, various; many, numerous; countless
    Hypernyms: any, some
  2. Used for emphasis in place of a
    1. Being a preeminent example.
    2. Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

one (third-person singular simple present ones, present participle oning, simple past and past participle oned)

  1. (transitive) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.

See also

  • Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

References

  • “one”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • one on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Analogous to several senses of Hokkien ê and Mandarin 的 (de, declarative particle, nominalizer, etc.). This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and 的/-ê as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge3).

Pronunciation

  • (Singapore) IPA(key): /wʌn/, [wän˦], (at the end of sentences) [wän˦˧]

Particle

one (Singapore, Singlish)

  1. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
    Got almonds one. ― There are almonds in it.
    How come so heavy one ah? ― Why is it so heavy?
    Can easily get lost one, know? ― You can easily get lost here/there.
  3. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
    My friend send one. ― It was sent by my friend.
    Who say one? ― Who said so?
    He ask one, not I ask one. ― It wasn’t me who asked, it was him.
  4. A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
    The sell fruits one go home already. ― The fruit seller went home.
Usage notes

Sense 2 takes the place of the direct object at the end of sentences.

Pronoun

one

  1. (Singapore, Singlish, rare) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.

See also

  • (Singlish and Manglish particles): ah, hor, know, lah, leh, liao, lor, mah, meh, sia, what

Further reading

  • Jock Wong (2005) “‘Why You so Singlish One?’ A Semantic and Cultural Interpretation of the Singapore English Particle One”, in Language in Society, volume 34, number 2, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 239–275.
  • Chow Siew Yeng, Francis Bond (2022 June) “Singlish Where Got Rules One? Constructing a Computational Grammar for Singlish”, in Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation‎[6], Paris: European Language Resources Association, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-18, pages 5243–5250.

Anagrams

  • EON, NEO, NOE, Neo, Noe, eno-, eon, neo, neo-

Äiwoo

Verb

one

  1. to hunt

References

  • Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone (compare with Tahitian one, Maori one, Tongan one, Samoan one), from Proto-Oceanic *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay (compare with Chamorro unai, Javanese êni).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈo.ne/

Noun

one

  1. sand
  2. silt

Derived terms

References

Japanese

Romanization

one

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おね

Kustenau

Noun

one

  1. water

References

  • Anales: Sección historico-filosófica (Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo), volume 1 (2), part 1

Mangarevan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay.

Noun

one

  1. sand

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Oceanic *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay (compare with Javanese êni).

Compare with Malay pasir (e.g. in gula pasir) for sense of 'granule, granulated'

Noun

one

  1. sand
  2. (archaic) mud
    Synonym: paru
  3. soil, earth
    Synonym: nuku
  4. beach
    Synonym: tātahi

Derived terms

Adjective

one

  1. granular, granulated
    huka one: granulated sugar, caster sugar

References

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “one”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 279
  • “one” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Preposition

one

  1. Alternative form of on

Adverb

one

  1. Alternative form of on (“on”)

Etymology 2

Numeral

one

  1. Alternative form of on

Etymology 3

Adverb

one

  1. Alternative form of on (“singly”)

Etymology 4

Noun

one (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hone (“delay”)

Etymology 5

Verb

one (third-person singular simple present oneth, present participle onende, onynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle oned)

  1. Alternative form of onen

Etymology 6

Verb

one (third-person singular simple present an, present participle onende, first-/third-person singular past indicative oðe, past participle onen)

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of unnen

Etymology 7

Noun

one (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of wone (“course”)

Etymology 8

Noun

one (plural ones)

  1. Alternative form of oven

Etymology 9

Adjective

one

  1. Alternative form of owen

Niuean

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay.

Noun

one

  1. sand
  2. gunpowder

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ēnu (“without”). Cognates include Old Saxon āno and Old Dutch *āna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːne/

Preposition

ône

  1. except

References

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish one. The oblique case forms come from Proto-Slavic *ję̇.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.nɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔnɛ
  • Syllabification: o‧ne

Pronoun

one nvir

  1. they; nonvirile third-person plural pronoun, used for all groups not containing men

Declension

See also

  • Appendix:Polish pronouns

Further reading

  • one in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rarotongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay.

Noun

one

  1. sand

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay.

Noun

one

  1. sand

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ony, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ónos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǒne/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ne

Pronoun

òne (Cyrillic spelling о̀не)

  1. they (nominative plural of òna (“she”)); nonvirile third-person plural pronoun, used for all groups not containing men
  2. masculine plural accusative of onaj

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ̀ːnɛ/

Pronoun

óne

  1. they (feminine plural, more than two)

Inflection

Forms between parentheses indicate clitic forms; the main forms are used for emphasis.

See also

Swahili

Verb

-one

  1. subjunctive stem of -ona

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.ne/

Noun

one

  1. sand
  2. dust

References

  • “one” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Tikopia

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay.

Noun

one

  1. sand

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone (“sand”). Cognates include Hawaiian one and Samoan one.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈo.ne]
  • Hyphenation: o‧ne

Noun

one

  1. beach of sand
  2. gunpowder

Derived terms

  • oneone

References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎[7], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 38

Tuamotuan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qone, from Proto-Austronesian *qənay.

Noun

one

  1. sand

Volapük

Pronoun

one

  1. (dative singular of on) to it

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