ebon

eb·on

Old Poet. ebony

Origin of ebon

Middle English eban from Classical Latin ebenus, hebenus from Classical Greek ebenos from Egyptian hbny (from source Classical Hebrew (language) hovne)

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ebon

adjective

Made of ebony.
Black in color.

noun

Ebony.

Origin of ebon

Middle English eban ebony wood from Old French from Latin hebenus, ebenus ebony tree from Greek ebenos ; see ebony .

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Noun

(plural ebons)

(now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

Adjective

(comparative more ebon, superlative most ebon)

(poetic) Made of ebony.
(poetic) Black in colour.

Origin

From Old French eban (modern ébène), from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ebenos, “ebony tree”).

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Among the Carolines and the Marshalls darker and more savage communities are found, suggesting a Melanesian element, which is further traceable in the Ebon (Marshall) and other languages.
In the language of Ebon, one of the islands in the Marshall archipelago, nouns have the peculiarity which is characteristic of the Papuan languages: those which indicate close relationship - as of a son to a father, or of the members of a person's body - take a pronominal suffix which gives them the appearance of inflexions.
In the Ebon language there are inclusive and exclusive forms of the personal pronouns which, so far as has been ascertained, do not occur in any of the other languages.
In the Ebon language, however, the tenses are sometimes marked; but in that the simple form of the verb is frequently given.

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