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yon

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See also: Yon, yön, yọn, þon, and -yon

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Cognate with German jener.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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yon

  1. (dated or dialectal) Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
    He went to climb yon hill.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      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."
    • 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
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Adverb

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yon (not comparable)

  1. (dated or dialectal) yonder.
Derived terms
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Pronoun

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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

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Phrase

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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

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Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin ūnus. Doublet of un (indefinite article).

Numeral

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yon (feminine yona or yena) (ORB, broad)

  1. one

References

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  • un [2] in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • yon in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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Maybe a contraction of French il y a un.

Pronunciation

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Article

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yon

  1. a, an; the indefinite article

Usage notes

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

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Japanese

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Romanization

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yon

  1. Rōmaji transcription of よん

Kok-Paponk

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Pronoun

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yon

  1. you; second-person singular pronoun

References

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  • 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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old English ġeon, from Proto-West Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jɔn/, /jɛn/
  • (from inflected forms) IPA(key): /jɔːn/, /jɛːn/

Determiner

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yon (plural and weak singular yone)

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

Descendants

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  • English: yon
  • Scots: yon, thon

Adverb

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yon

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

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Pronoun

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yon

  1. (rare) that one; that person

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Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [jon]
  • (North Northern Scots, Orcadian) IPA(key): [jɪn]
  • (Shetlandic) IPA(key): [jʌn]

Adjective

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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

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yon

  1. that one person or thing, etc.
  2. those

Adverb

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yon (not comparable)

  1. yonder, over there, further away
  2. thither, to that place

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Tagalog

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yon (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜈ᜔) (colloquial)

  1. Alternative spelling of 'yon

Pronoun

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yon (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜈ᜔) (colloquial)

  1. Alternative spelling of 'yon

Anagrams

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Tatar

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Etymology

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

Noun

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yon

  1. feather

Ternate

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yon

  1. a kind of dance

References

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