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Vinony

one

noun

  1. English pronoun
L268142 on Wikidata ↗
  1. cardinal number
L327 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

  1. unified, as a single entity
L338904 on Wikidata ↗
  1. any person
L38519 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /wʌn/ / /wɒn/ / /wɐn/ / [wɐn(˦)~wän(˦)] / [wɐn(˦˧)~wän(˦˧)]

adj

Etymology: PIE word *h₁óynos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one 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”). Doublet of an. 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. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). 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.

  1. Of a period of time, being particular.

    “One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.”

    “One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.”

  2. Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.

    “My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."”

  3. Sole, only.

    “He is the one man who can help you.”

    “The one male audience member at the concert is invited on stage.”

  4. Whole, entire.

    “Body and soul are not separate; they are one.”

  5. In agreement.

    “We are one on the importance of learning.”

  6. The same.

    “The two types look very different, but are one species.”

det

Etymology: PIE word *h₁óynos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one 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”). Doublet of an. 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. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). 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.

  1. A single.

    “There was one box of biscuits available.”

  2. Used for emphasis in place of a

    “He is one hell of a guy.”

  3. Used for emphasis in place of a

    “The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.”

noun

Etymology: PIE word *h₁óynos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one 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”). Doublet of an. 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. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). 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.

  1. The digit or figure 1.

    “This effectively allows switching on and off of the flow of current, so it is either conducting or not conducting, creating the binary system of zeroes and ones used in digital computers.”

  2. Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

    “I need some ones to make change.”

  3. Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

    “It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”

    “The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.”

  4. Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context
  5. Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

    “Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?”

  6. Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

    “You already know, so you can answer that one yourselves”

  7. Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

    “I had a quick one after work”

    “There’s nothing better than drinking a cold one when the weather’s boiling outside”

  8. Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

    “Just a quick one before work”

  9. A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).

    “Now, he's a curious one.”

    “Well, well, well, it seems the silent one does have a voice, after all.”

  10. A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).

    “He's not one for pulling his punches.”

    “Pause. They look meaningly at one another. / "You are a one for being roundabout," says the lady.”

  11. A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).

    “Oh, most merciful one!”

    “Hey, sleepy one.”

  12. A particularly special or compatible person or thing.

    “I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.”

    “That car's the one — I'll buy it.”

  13. A gay person.

    “Finally got Ollie Martin. He couldn't have more poise, and what do I care if he is one?”

  14. The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
  15. 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".

    “A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!1!?1!”

    “B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!”

num

Etymology: PIE word *h₁óynos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one 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”). Doublet of an. 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. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). 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.

  1. The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

    “In some religions, there is more than one god.”

    “In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.”

  2. The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
  3. The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
  4. The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.

particle

Etymology: Analogous to several senses of Hokkien 個／个 (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 (de) or 個 /个 (ê) as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).

  1. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.

    “Got almonds one.”

    “How come so heavy one ah?”

  2. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.

    “My friend send one.”

    “Who say one?”

  3. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.

    “Can easily get lost one, know?”

  4. A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.

    “The sell fruits one go home already.”

pron

Etymology: Analogous to several senses of Hokkien 個／个 (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 (de) or 個 /个 (ê) as a nominalizer (e.g. 青色的 (“the green one”)). Compare Cantonese 嘅 (ge³).

  1. Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.

    “The bird that make a lot of noise one is gone already.”

verb

Etymology: PIE word *h₁óynos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English on English one 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”). Doublet of an. 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. False cognate of Malayalam ഒന്ന് (onnŭ), Tamil ஒன்னு (oṉṉu), ஒண்ணு (oṇṇu), ஒன்று (oṉṟu). 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.

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

    “The question, of course, evokes discernment, not dogma, but we should note that the "unknowing" involves intellectual knowledge, whereas the problematic of being "oned" involves experiential knowledge.”

    “And both shall be oned in eternal happiness.”