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Engleski

Sistem

en+ng=eng



Etymology 1

From Srednji Engleski yon, from Stari Engleski ġeon, from Pra-Germanski *jainaz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

yon (not comparable)

  1. (dated or dialectal) distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
    He went to climb yon hill.
    • Šablon:RQ:Milton Paradise Lost
    • 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

Adverb

yon (not comparable)

  1. (dated or dialectal) yonder.
Derived terms

Pronoun

yon

  1. (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

  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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Maybe a contraction of Francuski il y a un.

Article

yon

  1. a, an; the indefinite article

Usage notes

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

Japanski


Romanization

yon

  1. Rōmaji transcription of よん

Kok-Paponk

Pronoun

yon

  1. 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

Etymology

Nasleđeno od Stari Engleski ġeon, from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *jain, from Pra-Germanski *jainaz.

Pronunciation

Determiner

yon (plural and weak singular yone)

  1. (somewhat uncommon) that (over there), yon

Descendants

  • Engleski: yon
  • Škotski: yon, thon

Adverb

Šablon:enm-adv

  1. (rare) that (over there), yonder
  2. (rare) afterwards, next (chronologically)

Descendants

References

Pronoun

yon

  1. (rare) that one; that person

Descendants

References

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Srednji Engleski yon, from Stari Engleski ġeon, from Pra-Germanski *jainaz. Compare Engleski yon and Nemački jener.

Pronunciation

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

Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *juŋ. Compare Kazakh žүn (jün, wool, fur, feather).

Noun

yon

  1. feather

Ternate

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.

Pronunciation

Noun

Šablon:tft-noun

  1. a kind of dance

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh