yon
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /jɒn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /jɑn/
- Homophone: yawn (with cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Adjective edit
yon (not comparable)
- (dated or dialectal) distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
- He went to climb yon hill.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.
- 1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man:
- " […] Yet first let me close yonder shutters; the slanting rain is beating through the sash. I will bar up." "Are you mad? Know you not that yon iron bar is a swift conductor? Desist."
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158:
- "Do my eyes deceive me, or is yon object a Puddin'?" he cried.
- 2012 Spring, Gerda Stevenson, “Federer versus Murray”, in Salmagundi:
- His head... his head... his face... it wisnae there. Nae black curly hair, nae eyes - I've never seen eyes sae blue as Joe's. Irises blue as yon sky. Blown tae smithereens... his gorgeous, bonny head, no there.
Translations edit
that thing, distant, but within sight
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Adverb edit
yon (not comparable)
Derived terms edit
Pronoun edit
yon
- (dated or dialectal) That one or those over there.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
- As soon as old Andrew came home, his wife and he, as was natural, instantly began to converse on the events of the preceding night; and in the course of their conversation Andrew said, "Gudeness be about us' Jean, was not yon an awfu' speech o' our bairn's to young Jock Allanson last night?"
Etymology 2 edit
Phrase edit
yon
- (knitting) Acronym of yarn over needle.
- 2006, Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting, page 222:
- Buttonhole row: (K1, p1) 3 times, yon, k2tog, (k1,p1) 5 times, yon, k2tog, […]
Anagrams edit
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Maybe a contraction of French il y a un.
Pronunciation edit
Article edit
yon
- a, an; the indefinite article
Usage notes edit
Yon always precedes the noun it modifies, unlike most adjectives.
Related terms edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
yon
Kok-Paponk edit
Pronoun edit
yon
- you; second-person singular pronoun
References edit
- Paul Black (2008) “Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan”, in Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli, editors, Morphology and Language History (in Kok-Paponk), →ISBN
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old English ġeon, from Proto-West Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
yon (plural and weak singular yone)
Descendants edit
Adverb edit
yon
Descendants edit
References edit
- “yon, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Pronoun edit
yon
Descendants edit
References edit
- “yon, pronoun.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Compare English yon and German jener.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
yon (not comparable)
- that, those, yonder (indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote than that)
Pronoun edit
yon
- that one person or thing, etc.
- those
Adverb edit
yon (not comparable)
- yonder, over there, further away
- thither, to that place
Derived terms edit
- yonwey (“yonder way”)
Tatar edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *juŋ. Compare Kazakh жүн (jün, “wool, fur, feather”).
Noun edit
yon
Ternate edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yon
- a kind of dance
References edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh