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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
yon (not comparable)
- (dated or dialectal) distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
He went to climb yon hill.
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
that thing, distant, but within sight
- Czech: tamten, onen (cs)
- Dutch: gene (nl)
- Finnish: tuo (fi)
- German: jener (de) m, jene (de) f, jenes (de) n, jene (de) pl
- Gothic: 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains)
- Greek: εκείνος (el) m (ekeínos)
- Italian: quello (it) m, quella (it) f, quelli (it) m pl, quelle (it) f pl
- Japanese: あの (ja) (ano), あれ (ja) (are)
- Korean: 저것 (ko) (jeogeot)
- Latin: ille (la) m, illa f, illud n
- Portuguese: aquilo (pt) n, aquela (pt) f, aquele (pt) m
- Russian: вон тот (von tot)
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Adverb
yon (not comparable)
- (dated or dialectal) yonder.
Derived terms
Pronoun
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
Phrase
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
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Maybe a contraction of French il y a un.
Pronunciation
Article
yon
- a, an; the indefinite article
Usage notes
Yon always precedes the noun it modifies, unlike most adjectives.
Related terms
Japanese
Romanization
yon
- Rōmaji transcription of よん
Kok-Paponk
Pronoun
yon
- you; second-person singular pronoun
References
- 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
Alternative forms
- gion, ȝen, ȝene, ȝeon, ȝhone, ȝon, ȝone, ȝonne, ȝyn, yhon, yoene, yone
Etymology
Inherited from Old English ġeon, from Proto-West Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɔn/, /jɛn/
- (from inflected forms) IPA(key): /jɔːn/, /jɛːn/
Determiner
yon (plural and weak singular yone)
- (somewhat uncommon) that (over there), yon
Descendants
Adverb
yon
- (rare) that (over there), yonder
- (rare) afterwards, next (chronologically)
Descendants
References
Pronoun
yon
- (rare) that one; that person
Descendants
References
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Compare English yon and German jener.
Pronunciation
Adjective
yon (not comparable)
- that, those, yonder (indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote than that)
Pronoun
yon
- that one person or thing, etc.
- those
Adverb
yon (not comparable)
- yonder, over there, further away
- thither, to that place
Derived terms
Tatar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *juŋ. Compare Kazakh жүн (jün, “wool, fur, feather”).
Noun
yon
- feather
Ternate
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
yon
- a kind of dance
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh