kone

From Old Danish kona, from Old Norse kona, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰoːnə]

kone c (singular definite konen, plural indefinite koner)

1. wife (married woman)
2. (dated) woman (frequent in compounds)

From Proto-Finnic *koneh, from Pre-Finnic *konïš, borrowed from Pre-Germanic *gn̥ni̯o- (later Proto-Germanic *kunją (“omen, portent, miracle”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-. Cognates include Old Norse kyn (“wonder”). The original meaning in Finnish was 'magic', from which only recently 'machine'.[1] Cognate with Karelian koneh (“magic”), konehtie (“to conjure”) and Estonian kõne (“speech”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoneˣ/, [ˈko̞ne̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -one
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧ne

kone

1. machine
2. appliance (apparatus or device, typically powered electrically, used in homes to perform domestic functions)

   kodinkone / kotitalouskone ― household appliance

3. Short for various compound words ending in kone.
   1. Short for lentokone (“airplane”).
   2. Short for tietokone (“computer”).
   3. Short for kirjoituskone (“typewriter”).
   4. Short for pyykinpesukone (“washing machine”).
   5. Short for astianpesukone (“dishwasher”).
   6. Short for ompelukone (“sewing machine”).

• masiina (colloquial), rakkine (derogatory)

• koneellinen
• koneistaa

• keno, keon, koen

kone

1. beach, shore

From Old Norse kona.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːne/

kone f or m (definite singular kona or konen, indefinite plural koner, definite plural konene)

1. housewife, mistress of the house
2. wife

• One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing (unlike kvinne).

• hustru

• ekskone

• “kone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse kona.

kone f (definite singular kona, indefinite plural koner, definite plural konene)

1. housewife; mistress of the house
2. wife

• kjerring, hustru

• ekskone

• “kone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

kone

1. son