Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. · The bulb of such a plant. · Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa. · Of a drug, an ounce.
From Middle English onyoun, oynoun, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem, accusative of ūniō (“onion”), which had also been borrowed into Old English as yne, ynnelēac (“onion”) (> Middle English hynne-leac, henne-leac). Displaced the inherited term ramsons. * (soy): Stems from a 4chan word filter which changes the word soy to onions. The word filter was implemented in relation to the "alpha onion eater" meme, which is depicted as the direct opposite of the soy boy.
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- Inherited-form mentiononyounenm
- Derivation mentionoignonfro
- Derivation mentionūniōnemla
- Cognate mentionhynne-leacenm
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