yon

See also: Yon, yön, þon, and -yon

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English

Etymology 1

From Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɒn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

Adjective

yon (not comparable)

1. (dated or dialectal) That (thing) over there; of something distant, but within sight.

   He went to climb yon hill.

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page 9:

     Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any weather at all: and another Storme brewing, I heare it ſing ith' winde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that would ſhed his licquor: if it ſhould thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond ſame cloud cannot chooſe but fall by paile-fuls.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV:

     Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.

   • 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

that thing, distant, but within sight

• Finnish: tuo (fi)
• German: jener (de) m, jene (de) f, jenes (de) n, jene (de) pl
• Greek: εκείνος (el) m (ekeínos)

• Korean: 저것 (ko) (jeogeot)
• Portuguese: aquilo (pt) n, aquela (pt) f, aquele (pt) m
• Russian: вон тот (von tot)

Adverb

yon (not comparable)

1. (dated or dialectal) yonder.

Pronoun

yon

1. (dated or dialectal) That one or those over there.

Etymology 2

Phrase

yon

1. (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

• noy

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Haitian Creole

Article

yon

1. a, an; the indefinite article

Usage notes

Yon always precedes the noun it modifies, unlike most adjectives.

Related terms

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• nan
• yo

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Japanese

Romanization

yon

1. Rōmaji transcription of よん

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Kok-Paponk

Pronoun

yon

1. you; second-person singular pronoun

References

• 2008, Paul Black, Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan, in Morphology and Language History →ISBN, edited by Claire Bowern, ‎Bethwyn Evans, ‎Luisa Miceli)

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Scots

Alternative forms

• thon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jon]
• (North Northern Scots, Orcadian) IPA^(key): [jɪn]
• (Shetlandic) IPA^(key): [jʌn]

Adjective

yon (not comparable)

1. that, those, yonder (indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote than that)

Pronoun

yon

1. that one person or thing, etc.
2. those

Adverb

yon (not comparable)

1. yonder, over there, further away
2. thither, to that place

Derived terms

• yonwey (“yonder way”)

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Tatar

Noun

yon

1. feather