tuon

tuon

See also: tuôn

Finnish

Etymology

• The genitive and genitive-looking accusative singular of the demonstrative pronoun tuo.

Pronoun

tuon

1. Genitive and accusative singular form of tuo.
2. (accusative) that (over there) (direct object, when the speaker points at the thing):

   • Voisitko tehdä tuon?
     • Could you please do that?

3. (genitive) of that (when the speaker points at the thing):

   • Tuon koulun rehtori on kuulemma aika ankara.
     • The rector of that school is said to be quite strict.

Inflection

• See tuo

Synonyms

• (dialectal) ton

Verb

tuon

1. First-person singular indicative present form of tuoda.

   • (Minä) tuon sinulle kynän.
     • I bring you a pen.

Anagrams

• Unto

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Old High German

Alternative forms

• duon, duan

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dōną, akin to Old Saxon dōn, doan, duan, duon, Old Dutch duon, Old Frisian dūa, duā, dwā, Old English dōn. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.

Verb

tuon

1. to do
2. to make

Descendants

• Middle High German: tuon
  • Alemannic German: tue, due, tuä

    Swabian: dua, doa

  • Bavarian: doa

    Cimbrian: tüan, tüunan

  • Central Franconian: donn, don, dun

    Kölsch: dunn

  • German: tun
  • Luxembourgish: doen, dinn, dunn
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: duh

  • Yiddish: טאָן‎ (ton)