yonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /jɒn/
• (General American) IPA: /jɑn/
• Homophone: yawn (cot–caught merger)
• 韻: -ɒn

限定詞

yon

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], 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.

副詞

yon (not comparable)

1. (dated or dialectal) yonder.

派生語

• hither and yon

代名詞

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?"

語源 2

成句

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, […]

アナグラム

• Noy, noy

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 ġeon, from Proto-West Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.

発音

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

限定詞

yon (plural and weak singular yone)

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

派生した語

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

副詞

yon

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

派生した語

• English: yon
• Scots: yon, thon

参照

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

代名詞

yon

1. (rare) that one; that person

派生した語

• English: yon
• Scots: yon, thon

参照

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