yon
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Sistem
Etymology 1
From Srednji Engleski yon, from Stari Engleski ġeon, from Pra-Germanski *jainaz.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) MFA(ključ): /jɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) MFA(ključ): /jɑn/
- Rime: -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.
- 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
that thing, distant, but within sight
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Adverb
yon (not comparable)
Derived terms
Pronoun
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 not yon an awfu' speech o' our bairn's to young Jock Allanson last night?"
Etymology 2
Phrase
yon
- (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
- 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 (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)
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 Srednji Engleski yon, from Stari Engleski ġeon, from Pra-Germanski *jainaz. Compare Engleski yon and Nemački 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 žүn (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
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