one

Etymology
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Etymology 1
From, , , , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , ; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, ; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, ; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬); 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Use as indefinite personal pronoun influenced by unrelated.

Verb form from.

Pronunciation


Around the 14th century, in southwest and western England, the word began to be pronounced with an initial  (compare e.g., , a dialectal form of ), and the spellings  and  began to be found alongside , ; the , though initially nonstandard, had become the norm by the 18th century. In, , and , as well as in the dialectal form (and in  and ), the older pronunciations without  are preserved,  while  shows the same.

Numeral

 * 1)  The  represented by the  ; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
 * 2)  The    in the set of.
 * 3)  The  of the smallest  set.
 * 4)  The  of an element which has no, usually called ' or '.
 * 1)  The    in the set of.
 * 2)  The  of the smallest  set.
 * 3)  The  of an element which has no, usually called ' or '.
 * 1)  The  of the smallest  set.
 * 2)  The  of an element which has no, usually called ' or '.

Related terms

 * ordinal

Pronoun

 * 1)  One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
 * 2)  The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
 * 3)  Any person (applying to people in general).
 * 4)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person (applying to people in general).
 * 2)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person (applying to people in general).
 * 2)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person, entity or thing.
 * 1)  Any person, entity or thing.

Usage notes

 * See they § Usage notes.

Translations

 * Breton:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: does not exist, other passive structures used
 * German:
 * Hindi: not translated "I want the green one" = "हरावाला चाहता हूँ" (the adj. and the verb agree) (literally, "I want the one which is green").
 * Interlingua:, , expressed by reflexivization in expressions of the type "one" + transitive verb + direct object, expressed by nominalization when following an adjective
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish:, , expressed by nominalization when following an adjective
 * Turkish: ,

Noun

 * 1) The digit or figure 1.
 * 2)  A one-dollar bill.
 * I need some ones to make change.
 * 1) One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
 * 2)  One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
 * 3) A joke or amusing anecdote.
 * 4)  A person (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
 * 5)  A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
 * 6)  A gay person.
 * 7)  The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
 * 8) * 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
 * 9) * 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
 * 10) * 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet
 * 1)  A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
 * 2)  A gay person.
 * 3)  The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
 * 4) * 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
 * 5) * 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
 * 6) * 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet
 * 1)  The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
 * 2) * 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
 * 3) * 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
 * 4) * 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet
 * 1) * 2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
 * 2) * 2004 November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11one", in comp.lang.awk, Usenet
 * 3) * 2007 December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!one!11!!1oneone!1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, Usenet

Translations

 * Vietnamese:, , , , ,

Adjective

 * 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.
 * 1) Whole, entire.
 * 2) In agreement.
 * 3) The same.
 * 1) In agreement.
 * 2) The same.
 * 1) The same.
 * 1) The same.

Determiner

 * 1) A single.
 * 2) Used for emphasis in place of a
 * 3) Being a preeminent example.
 * 4) Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
 * 1) Used for emphasis in place of a
 * 2) Being a preeminent example.
 * 3) Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
 * 1) Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".

Translations

 * Swedish:, , not translated (3)

Verb

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

Etymology 2
Analogous to several senses of and. This semantic loan might have stemmed from the apparent similarity between one as a prop-word and /  as a nominalizer (e.g. ). Compare.

Usage notes
One (Sense 2) takes the place of the at the end of sentences.

Verb

 * 1) to hunt

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) beach
 * 2) sand, mud
 * 3) soil, earth

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand
 * 2) gunpowder

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Preposition

 * 1) except

Etymology
. The oblique case forms come from.

Pronoun

 * 1) they;

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Etymology
, from.

Pronoun

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

Pronoun

 * 1) they

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand
 * 2) dust

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) beach of sand
 * 2) gunpowder

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Pronoun

 * 1)  to it