mone
mone verb: to admonish; advise; explain. Also the obsolete spelling of moan.
Verb
mone (third-person singular simple present mones, present participle moning, simple past and past participle moned)
Noun (1)
mone (plural mones)
- Mind; preference.
- A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.1593, Michael Drayton, “The Second Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, page 6
Noun (2) capitalized: Mone
Mone pl (plural only)
- Archaic form of Mon (“a people of Myanmar and Thailand”).
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Mone
Mone
- Archaic form of Mon (“language”).
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Mone
Mone (plural Mones)
- A surname.
Also used as
mone is also the obsolete spelling of moan.
mone is also the obsolete spelling of moon.
Forms of mone
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | mones |
| present participle | moning |
| past participle | moned |
| past | moned |
| Noun | |
| plural | mones |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Mones |
Origin of mone
Inherited from Middle English monien, from Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell what ought to be done, teach, instruct, advise, claim, demand, ask of a person, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *manōną (“to admonish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mania (“to admonish”), Dutch manen (“to admonish”), German mahnen (“to remind, admonish, urge”).
Inherited from Middle English mone, alteration (affected by monien (“to admonish”)) of *mine (“mind”), from Middle English minen, mynen, munen, from Old English ġemynan, ġemunan (“to remember”). More at mind.
Alternative spellings.
Questions about mone
- What does mone mean?
- Mone means to admonish; advise; explain.
- What part of speech is mone?
- Mone can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of mone?
- The past tense of mone is moned.
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