soon

Такође погледајте: Soon, sōon, söon, so-on, и ŝo-on

Etymology

Од Средњи Енглески soone, sone, од , од , *sēnô (“immediately, soon, then”), од *sa (demonstrative pronoun), од Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun). Cognate са Шкотски sone, sune, schone (“soon, quickly, at once”), North Frisian san (“immediately, at once”), dialectal Холандски 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 са Готски 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns, “immediately, soon”), од .

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͞on, IPA^(кључ): /suːn/

• Audio (US):

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• Риме: -uːn

Adjective

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. Short in length of time from the present.

   I need the soonest date you have available.

2. (US, dialect) early
   • 1992, W. H. Andrews: A Paul Green Reader, p 129:

     Late in the evening we arrived at Quincy where we bivouacked for the night and taken a soon start the next morning to march to the arsenal.

   • 1997, Dorothy Stanaland Samuel, ‎Taliaferro Leslie Samuel: The Samuell/Samuel Families of Tidewater Virginia, p 148:

     Got up pretty early, ate a soon breakfast, had the sulky and was about to start to Newtown when it commenced raining..

   • 2000, Laurence G. Avery: A Paul Green Reader, p 220:

     They were different from colored folks who had to be out to get a soon start.

Adverb

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
2. Within a short time; quickly.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

3. (now dialectal) Early.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Exodus 2:18,^[1]

     How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1978, Chapter 6, p. 87,^[2]

     “Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked.

     “Seen ’im soon dis mornin’ over behind de school-house,” Lum said. “’’Bout ten o’clock or so. He musta been out all night tuh be way over dere dat early.”

4. Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.
   • (Can we датум this quote by Joseph Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.

Derived terms

• eftsoons
• get well soon
• soon enough
• sooner or later
• soonish
• soonly
• soon-to-wed
• Soon™
• too soon

 

Translations

within a short time

• Afrikaans: binnekort
• Albanian: shpejt (sq)
• Arabic: قَرِيبًا (qarīban)
• Armenian: շուտով (hy) (šutov), շուտ (hy) (šut)
• Bashkir: тиҙҙән (tiððän), оҙаҡламай (oðaqlamay)
• Basque: laster, laister
• Belarusian: ху́тка (xútka), ско́ра (skóra)
• Bengali: শীঘ্রই (śighrôi)
• Breton: bremaik (br)
• Bulgarian: ско́ро (bg) (skóro)
• Burmese: မကြာမတင် (my) (ma.krama.tang)
• Catalan: aviat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不久 (zh) (bùjiǔ), 快 (zh) (kuài)

• Czech: brzy (cs), zanedlouho
• Danish: snart
• Dutch: zo (nl), spoedig (nl), binnenkort (nl), dra (nl), gauw (nl), weldra (nl) (poetic)
• Esperanto: baldaŭ (eo)
• Estonian: varsti, peagi
• Faroese: skjótt, brátt
• Finnish: pian (fi), kohta (fi)
• French: bientôt (fr)
• Galician: pronto (gl), logo
• Georgian: მალე (male)
• German: bald (de)
• Greek: σύντομα (el) (sýntoma), νωρίς (el) (norís)

  Ancient: τάχα (tákha)

• Haitian Creole: talè
• Hebrew: בקרוב (bekaróv)
• Hindi: जल्दी (hi) (jaldī)
• Hungarian: hamar (hu), nemsokára (hu), mindjárt (hu), hamarosan (hu), egyhamar, rövidesen
• Icelandic: bráðum (is), brátt, fljótlega
• Ido: balde (io)
• Indonesian: segera (id)
• Irish: go haibéil, go luath
• Italian: presto (it), a breve (it)
• Japanese: すぐに (sugu ni), もうすぐ (mōsugu), 近々 (chikajika)
• Khmer: នៅ​ពេល​ជិត ៗ នេះ (nou bpayl jeut jeut nih)
• Korean: 곧 (ko) (got)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Lao: ໃນບໍ່ຊ້ານີ້ (nai bǭ sā nī)
• Latin: mox (la), citō
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• Latvian: drīz
• Lithuanian: greitai
• Luxembourgish: geschwënn
• Macedonian: наскоро (naskoro)
• Maltese: dalwaqt
• Maori: meāke, ākuanei, wawe, takitaro, ākuara, taro
• Mapudungun: matumatu
• Mongolian: удахгүй (mn) (udahgüj)
• Ngazidja Comorian: kariɓu, tsi hale
• Norman: biètaot (Guernsey)
• Norwegian: snart (no)
• Novial:
• Old English: hraþe
• Old Portuguese: logo
• Persian: زود (fa) (zud), بزودی (fa) (bezudi)
• Polish: wkrótce (pl), niedługo (pl)
• Portuguese: logo (pt), em breve (pt)
• Romanian: curând (ro)
• Russian: ско́ро (ru) (skóro), вско́ре (ru) (vskóre)
• Sanskrit: शीघ्रं (śīghraṃ), द्राक् (sa) (drāk)
• Scots: sune
• Scottish Gaelic: a dh'aithghearr, tràthail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏скоро, у̏бр̄зо

  Roman: ȕskoro (sh), ȕbr̄zo (sh)

• Slovak: skoro, čoskoro, zanedlho
• Slovene: kmálu (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: skóro

• Spanish: pronto (es)
• Swedish: snart (sv)
• Tamil: விரைவில் (viraivil)
• Thai: ในไม่ช้า (nai mâi cháa), ไม่นาน (mâi naan)
• Turkish: birazdan (tr), biraz sonra; hemen (tr),yakında (tr), şimdi (tr), derhal (tr); erken (tr); seve seve, memnuniyetle (tr)
• Ukrainian: ско́ро (skóro), незаба́ром (uk) (nezabárom)
• Urdu: جلدی (jaldī)
• Vietnamese: sớm (vi), chẳng bao lâu nữa
• Vilamovian: baołd
• Volapük: suno (vo)
• Walloon: bénrade (wa)
• Welsh: yn fuan
• West Frisian: tel
• Yiddish: באַלד (bald)

References

• soon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soon in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• noos, noso-, onos, sono- ^{(alphagram noos)}

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Bavarian

Alternative forms

• sogn (Sappada, Sauris)

Etymology

From , from , ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-. Compare Low German seggen, Холандски zeggen, Енглески say, Дански sige, Шведски säga.

Verb

soon

1. (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

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Estonian

Etymology

From , from . Cognates include with Фински suoni, and Мађарски ín (“sinew”).

Noun

soon (genitive soone, partitive soont)

1. sinew

Declension

Овај noun захтева inflection-table template.

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Wolof

Etymology

From Француски jaune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /sɔːn/

Verb

soon

1. to be yellow