son

Betekenis

Noun

1. One's male offspring.
2. A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
3. A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
4. A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
5. A person regarded as the product of some place.
6. A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
7. (colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
8. The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.

Verb

1. To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
2. To address (someone) as "son".

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/sʌn/

Etymologie

From Middle English sonn, sone, sun, sune, from Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bear; give birth”).

Zinnen

His wife and son had minor injuries .

Zijn vrouw en zoon hadden lichte verwondingen.

'And this is what your son said , ' the angel told the man .

'En dit is wat je zoon zei,' zei de engel tegen de man.