yon

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  1. adverb Yonder.
  2. pronoun Regional That one or those yonder.

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  1. Middle English, short for yond, yond; see yond and yonder, yonder; see yonder. Pron., Middle English, from Old English geon; see i- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial, yen; from Middle English yon, ʒon, ʒeon, from Anglo-Saxon geon (rare) = Old High German Middle High German G. jener, that, = Icelandic enn, inn, often written hinn, the, = Gothic (Moesogothic) jains, that; with adjective formative -na, from a pronominal base seen in Greek ὅς, who, orig. that, Sanskrit ya, who. Cf. yond, yonder.
  2. An altered form of yond, conformed to yon, a.
 

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