yon

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɒn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /jɑn/
• Homophone: yawn (with cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒn

yon (not comparable)

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], […], →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.

yon (not comparable)

1. (dated or dialectal) yonder.

• hither and yon

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?"

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, […]

• Noy, noy

Maybe a contraction of French il y a un.

• IPA^(key): /jɔ̃/

yon

1. a, an; the indefinite article

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

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• nan
• yo

yon

1. Rōmaji transcription of よん

yon

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

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

yon (plural and weak singular yone)

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

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

yon

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

• English: yon
• Scots: yon, thon

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

yon

1. (rare) that one; that person

• English: yon
• Scots: yon, thon

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

• thon

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

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

yon (not comparable)

1. that, those, yonder (indicating a person or thing at some distance in time or space usually more remote than that)

yon

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

yon (not comparable)

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

• yonwey (“yonder way”)

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

yon

1. feather

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• IPA^(key): [ˈjon]

yon

1. a kind of dance

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