# yon
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /jɒn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /jɑn/
* Homophone: yawn (cot–caught merger)
* Rhymes: -ɒn

#### Determiner

yon
* (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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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.

##### Translations
#### Adverb

yon (not comparable)
* (dated or dialectal) yonder.

##### Derived terms

* hither and yon

#### 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

* Noy, noy

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūnus. Doublet of un (indefinite article).

### Numeral

yon (feminine yona or yena) (ORB, broad)
* one

### References

* un [2] in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* yon in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

Maybe a contraction of French il y a un.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɔ̃/

### Article

yon
* 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
* Rōmaji transcription of よん

## 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

* gion, ȝen, ȝene, ȝeon, ȝhone, ȝon, ȝone, ȝonne, ȝyn, yhon, yoene, yone

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɔn/, /jɛn/
* (from inflected forms) IPA: /jɔːn/, /jɛːn/

### Determiner

yon (plural and weak singular yone)
* (somewhat uncommon) that (over there), yon

#### Descendants

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

### Adverb

yon
* (rare) that (over there), yonder
* (rare) afterwards, next (chronologically)

#### Descendants

* English: yon
* Scots: yon, thon

#### References

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

### Pronoun

yon
* (rare) that one; that person

#### Descendants

* English: yon
* Scots: yon, thon

#### References

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

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* thon

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [jon]
* (North Northern Scots, Orcadian) IPA: [jɪn]
* (Shetlandic) IPA: [jʌn]

### 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”)

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈjon/ [ˈjon̪]
* Rhymes: -on
* Syllabification: yon

### Determiner

yon (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜈ᜔) (colloquial)
* Alternative spelling of 'yon

### Pronoun

yon (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜈ᜔) (colloquial)
* Alternative spelling of 'yon

### Anagrams

* n'yo

## Tatar
### Etymology

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

### Noun

yon
* feather

## Ternate
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈjon]

### Noun

yon
* a kind of dance

### References

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