English Online Dictionary. What means soon? What does soon mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English sone, from Old English sōna (“immediately, at once”), from Proto-West Germanic *sān(ō), from Proto-Germanic *sēna, *sēnô (“immediately, soon, then”), from *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun).
Cognate with Scots sone, sune, schone (“soon, quickly, at once”), North Frisian san (“immediately, at once”), dialectal Dutch zaan (“soon, before long”), Middle Low German sân (“right afterwards, soon”), Middle High German sān, son (“soon, then”), Old High German sār (“immediately, soon”). Compare also Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns, “immediately, soon”), from Proto-Germanic *suniz (“soon”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: so͞on, IPA(key): /suːn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sun/
- Rhymes: -uːn
Adjective
soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)
- Short in length of time from the present.
- (US, dialect) Early.
- Used as an alternative to express 'to be going to' in the form 'to be soon to'.
Adverb
soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)
- (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
- Within a short time; quickly.
- (now dialectal) Early.
- Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- “soon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “soon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- noos, noso-, onos, oons, sono-
Bavarian
Alternative forms
- sogn (Sappada, Sauris)
Etymology
From Old High German sagēn, from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-.
Compare Low German seggen, Dutch zeggen, English say, Danish sige, Swedish säga.
Verb
soon
- (Timau) to say
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sooni, from Proto-Uralic *sëne. Cognates include Finnish suoni, Northern Mansi та̄н (tān) and Hungarian ín (“sinew”).
Pronunciation
Noun
soon (genitive soone, partitive soont)
- vein, blood vessel
Declension
Further reading
- “soon”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “soon”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- soon in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Wolof
Etymology
From French jaune.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔːn/
Verb
soon
- to be yellow
Yola
Adverb
soon
- Alternative form of zoon
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86