yон
Etymology 1
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) МФА(кључ): /jɒn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) МФА(кључ): /jɑn/
- Риме: -ɒn
- Homophone: yawn (with cot-caught merger)
Adjective
yon (not comparable)
- (dated or dialectal) distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
- He went to climb yon hill.
- Шаблон:RQ:Milton Paradise Lost
- 1856, w:Herman Melville, s:en:The Lightning Rod Man:
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Translations
that thing, distant, but within sight
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Adverb
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Derived terms
Pronoun
yon
- (dated or dialectal) That one or those over there.
- 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
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Etymology 2
Phrase
yon
- (knitting) Acronym of yarn over needle.
- 2006, Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting, strana 222:
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Anagrams
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Maybe a contraction of Француски il y a un.
Article
yon
- a, an; the indefinite article
Usage notes
Yon always precedes the noun it modifies, unlike most adjectives.
Related terms
Romanization
yon
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, →ISBN 9027290962
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old English ġeon, from Proto-West Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.
Pronunciation
Determiner
yon (plural and weak singular yone)
Descendants
Adverb
Descendants
References
- “yon” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved MED54000.
Pronoun
yon
Descendants
References
- “yon” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved MED53998.
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Compare Енглески yon and Немачки 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
- yonwey (“yonder way”)
Tatar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *juŋ. Compare Kazakh жүн (jün, “wool, fur, feather”).
Noun
yon
Ternate
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- a kind of dance
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh