English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒn

Adjective

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.

Translations

Adverb

yon ‎(not comparable)

1. (dated or dialectal) Yonder.

Pronoun

yon

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

Etymology 2

Phrase

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, […]

Haitian Creole

Article

yon

1. a, an; the indefinite article

Usage notes

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

Related terms

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• nan
• yo

Japanese

Romanization

yon

1. rōmaji reading of よん

Kok-Paponk

Pronoun

yon

1. you; second-person singular pronoun

References

• 2008, Paul Black, Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan, in Morphology and Language History (ISBN 9027290962, edited by Claire Bowern, ‎Bethwyn Evans, ‎Luisa Miceli)

Scots

Alternative forms

• thon

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

yon

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

Adverb

yon ‎(not comparable)

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

Derived terms

• yonwey ‎(“yonder way”)