yon

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

• IPA^(key): /jɒn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

yon (not comparable)

1. (dated or dialectal) That (thing) over there; of something distant, but within sight.

   He went to climb yon hill.

   • Milton

     Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.

   • 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.

yon

1. (dated or dialectal) That one or those over there.

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

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

• 2008, Paul Black, Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan, in Morphology and Language History →ISBN, edited by Claire Bowern, ‎Bethwyn Evans, ‎Luisa Miceli)

• thon

• 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”)

yon

1. feather