yon

Takođe pogledajte: Yon, yön, yọn, þon, i -yon

Engleski

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) MFA^(ključ): /jɒn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) MFA^(ključ): /jɑn/
• Rime: -ɒn
• Homophone: yawn (with cot-caught merger)

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, w:Herman Melville, s:en:The Lightning Rod Man:

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, strana 158:

   • 2012 Spring, Gerda Stevenson, “Federer versus Murray”, in Salmagundi:

Translations

that thing, distant, but within sight

• 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: von tot (von tot)

Adverb

1. (dated or dialectal) yonder.

Derived terms

• hither and yon

Pronoun

yon

1. (dated or dialectal) That one or those over there.
   • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:

Etymology 2

Phrase

yon

1. (knitting) Acronym of yarn over needle.
   • 2006, Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting, strana 222:

Anagrams

• Noy, noy ^{(alphagram noy)}

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.

Related terms

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• nan
• yo

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, →ISBN 9027290962

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

• MFA^(ključ): /jɔn/, /jɛn/
• (from inflected forms) MFA^(ključ): /jɔːn/, /jɛːn/

Determiner

yon (plural and weak singular yone)

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

Descendants

• Engleski: yon
  • ⇒ Engleski: thon (under the influence of this, that)
• Scots: yon, thon

Adverb

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

Descendants

• Engleski: yon
• Scots: yon, thon

References

• “yon” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved MED54000.

Pronoun

yon

1. (rare) that one; that person

Descendants

• Engleski: yon
• Scots: yon, thon

References

• “yon” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved MED53998.

Scots

Alternative forms

• thon

Etymology

From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Compare Engleski yon and Nemački jener.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): [jon]
• (North Northern Scots, Orcadian) MFA^(ključ): [jɪn]
• (Shetlandic) MFA^(ključ): [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”)

Tatar

Etymology

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

Noun

yon

1. feather

Ternate

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): [ˈjon]

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