to/onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Abbreviation of cartoon.

別の表記

• 'toon

名詞

toon (plural toons)

1. (informal) A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
   • 2005, Sara Bell, The Magic in Your Touch, →ISBN, page 123:

     Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?

2. (informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
   • 2010, Ben Kei Daniel, Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:

     Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

3. (informal) An animated cartoon character.
   • 2025 June 25, Wikipedia contributors, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, in English Wikipedia‎, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1297297649:

     In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars.

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from Hindi तून (tūn), from Sanskrit तुणि (tuṇi, “Cedrela toona”).

名詞

toon (countable and uncountable, plural toons)

1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
   • 1973, Gerald A. Walters, Herbert L. Wick, Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees:

     Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.

2. The wood of this tree.
   • 1972, Roger G. Skolmen, Paintability of four woods in Hawaii, page 1:

     After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon.

同意語

• (tree): Australian red cedar, tone, toona
• (wood): toonwood

語源 3

Standard spelling for a dialectal phonological preservation of 中期英語 toun, town, towne (and other forms), which was pronounced the same as this dialectal form, with the now-standard form town having diverged therefrom by action of the Great Vowel Shift. See town for further etymology.
See also me (dialectal form of my), hoose (“house”), thoo (“thou”), and oot (“out”), for similar cases.

発音

• IPA: /tuːn/

名詞

toon (plural toons)

1. (Northumbria) Alternative form of town.
   • 1865, George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen - Volume 2, page 244:

     Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.

   • 1881, B.C., “The Chestnut Tree”, in The Border Counties' Magazine - Volumes 1-2, number 201:

     Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.

   • 2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, →ISBN, page 43:

     It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.

参考

• Toon

語源 4

名詞

toon (plural toons)

1. Eye dialect spelling of tune.
   • 1872, David Ross Locke, The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby, page 556:

     But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrit toons?

   • 1876, Eneas Sweetland Dallas -, Once a Week, page 45:

     Hark at the way them wires plays toons, as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismal toons on purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 39:

     “But toon up, and a song all round.”

   • 2013, Joseph Connolly, S.O.S., →ISBN:

     Why suddenly you're so eager to know the toon, now, Dwight? Before you was saying you didn't even hear no toon.

派生語

• looney toon, loony toon

参照

• List of English words of Sanskrit origin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “toon”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Noto, noot, noto-, on to, onto, onto-, oont, tono-