yon
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forYongkom.
FromMiddle Englishyon, fromOld Englishġeon, fromProto-Germanic*jainaz. Cognate withGermanjener.
yon
- (dated or dialectal)Distant, but withinsight; (that thing) just over there.
He went to climbyon hill.
1667,John Milton, “Book IV”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:Read thy lot inyon 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 thatyon iron bar is a swift conductor? Desist."
1918,Norman Lindsay,The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page158:"Do my eyes deceive me, or isyon object a Puddin'?" he cried.
2012 Spring, Gerda Stevenson, “Federer versus Murray”, inSalmagundi: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 asyon sky. Blown tae smithereens... his gorgeous, bonny head, no there.
that thing, distant, but within sight
- Czech:tamten,onen (cs)
- Dutch:gene (nl)
- Finnish:tuo (fi)
- French:celui-là (fr) m,celle-là (fr) f,ceux-là (fr) m pl,celles-là (fr) f pl
- 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)
- Spanish:aquel (es) m,aquella (es) f,aquello (es)
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yon (notcomparable)
- (dated or dialectal)yonder.
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 notyon an awfu' speech o' our bairn's to young Jock Allanson last night?"
yon
- (knitting)Acronym ofyarn overneedle.
2006, Heather Dixon,Not Your Mama's Knitting, page222:Buttonhole row: (K1, p1) 3 times,yon, k2tog, (k1,p1) 5 times,yon, k2tog,[…]
Inherited fromLatinūnus.Doublet ofun(indefinite article).
yon (feminineyonaoryena)(ORB, broad)
- one
- un [2] in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- yon in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu
Maybe a contraction ofFrenchil y aun.
yon
- a,an; theindefinite article
Yon always precedes the noun it modifies, unlike most adjectives.
yon
- Rōmaji transcription ofよん
yon
- you;second-person singular pronoun
- Paul Black (2008), “Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan”, in Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli, editors,Morphology and Language History (in Kok-Paponk),→ISBN
- gion,ȝen,ȝene,ȝeon,ȝhone,ȝon,ȝone,ȝonne,ȝyn,yhon,yoene,yone
Inherited fromOld Englishġeon, fromProto-West Germanic*jain, fromProto-Germanic*jainaz.
- IPA(key): /jɔn/,/jɛn/
- (from inflected forms)IPA(key): /jɔːn/,/jɛːn/
yon (plural and weak singularyone)
- (somewhat uncommon)that(over there),yon
yon
- (rare)that(over there),yonder
- (rare)afterwards,next(chronologically)
yon
- (rare)that one;that person
FromMiddle Englishyon, fromOld Englishġeon, fromProto-Germanic*jainaz. CompareEnglishyon andGermanjener.
yon (notcomparable)
- that,those,yonder(indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote thanthat)
yon
- that one person or thing, etc.
- those
yon (notcomparable)
- yonder,over there,further away
- thither, to that place
yon (Baybayin spellingᜌᜓᜈ᜔)(colloquial)
- alternative spelling of'yon
yon (Baybayin spellingᜌᜓᜈ᜔)(colloquial)
- alternative spelling of'yon
FromProto-Turkic*juŋ. CompareKazakhжүн(jün,“wool, fur, feather”).
yon
- feather
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
yon
- a kind ofdance
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001),A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
