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• younder (dialectal)

語源

From 中期英語 yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from 古期英語 ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈjɑndəɹ/
• (regional Southern 米国発音, obsolete) IPA: /ˈjændə(ɹ)/
• (New England, obsolete) IPA: /ˈjɛndə/
• 韻: -ɒndə(ɹ)

副詞

yonder (not comparable)

1. (archaic or dialectal outside of Cumbria, Southern US) At or in a distant but indicated place.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 149:

     See who yonder is.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there."

   Whose doublewide is that over yonder?

2. (archaic or dialect) Synonym of thither: to a distant but indicated place.
   • 1535, Bible (Coverdale), Genesis, 22:

     As for me and the childe, we wyl go yonder.

   They headed on over yonder.

同意語

• (all senses): there, over there, away there

派生語

• absence makes the heart go yonder
• here and yonder, hither and yonder
• wild blue yonder

形容詞

yonder (comparative more yonder, superlative most yonder)

1. (archaic or dialect) The farther, the more distant of two choices.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 163:

     "You have all necessary proofs in your possession, though you may not be aware of their existence," replied Arden; "will you allow me to open yonder box?"

同意語

• see farther

限定詞

yonder

1. (archaic or dialect, as an adjective) Who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.

   Yonder lass, who be she?

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     But ſoft, what light through yonder window breaks?
     It is the Eaſt, and Iuliet is the Sunne […]

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     Fire, the Sword, and Plagueǃ They may all be found in the yonder city; on my head alone may they fallǃ

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 163:

     "You have all necessary proofs in your possession, though you may not be aware of their existence," replied Arden; "will you allow me to open yonder box?"

   • 2006, Cécile Corbel, “Siúil a Ruin”, in Songbook 1‎, performed by Cécile Corbel, Brittany: Keltia Musique:

     I wish I were on yonder hill
     and there I’d sit and I’d cry my fill,
     and ev’ry tear would turn a mill,
     And a blessing walk with you, my love

2. (archaic or dialect, as a pronoun) One who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.

   The yonder is Queen Niobe.

同意語

• (distant but within sight): yon

派生語

名詞

yonder (plural yonders)

1. (literary) The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest.

   She set off into the blue yonder.

   • 1939, Robert MacArthur Crawford, Army Air Corps::

     Off we go in to the wild blue yonder,
     Climbing high into the sun...

派生語

参考

• yon
• beyond

参照

アナグラム

• Dorney, Rodney, Yerdon, droney