yon
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /jɒn/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /jɑn/
- Rhymes: -ɒn
- Homophone: yawn (with cot-caught merger)
AdjectiveEdit
yon (not comparable)
- (dated or dialectal) That (thing) over there; of something distant, but within sight.
- He went to climb yon hill.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- 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."
- 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.
TranslationsEdit
that thing, distant, but within sight
AdverbEdit
yon (not comparable)
PronounEdit
yon
Etymology 2Edit
PhraseEdit
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, […]
- 2006, Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting (page 222)
AnagramsEdit
Haitian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
Maybe a contraction of French il y a un.
ArticleEdit
yon
- a, an; the indefinite article
Usage notesEdit
Yon always precedes the noun it modifies, unlike most adjectives.
Related termsEdit
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
yon
Kok-PaponkEdit
PronounEdit
yon
- you; second-person singular pronoun
ReferencesEdit
- 2008, Paul Black, Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan, in Morphology and Language History →ISBN, edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli)
ScotsEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Compare English yon and German jener.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
yon (not comparable)
- that, those, yonder (indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote than that)
PronounEdit
yon
- that one person or thing, etc.
- those
AdverbEdit
yon (not comparable)
- yonder, over there, further away
- thither, to that place
Derived termsEdit
- yonwey (“yonder way”)
TatarEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Turkic *juŋ. Compare Kazakh жүн (jün, “wool, fur, feather”).
NounEdit
yon