different between hither vs yon

English

Etymology

From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?ð?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?ð?/

• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Adverb

hither (not comparable)

1. (literary or archaic) To this place, to here.
2. over here

Usage notes

• Compare to the pronominal adverb "hereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".

Antonyms

• hence

Derived terms

Related terms

• thither
• whither
• hither and thither

Translations

Adjective

hither (not comparable)

1. (archaic) On this side; the nearer.

   Synonym: (literary) citerior

   • 1954, The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)

Derived terms

• Hither Green

Translations

See also

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yon, from Old English ?eon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /j?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: yawn (with cot-caught merger)

Adjective

yon (not comparable)

1. (dated or dialectal) That (thing) over there; of something distant, but within sight.

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, […]

Anagrams

• noy

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Maybe a contraction of French il y a un.

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. R?maji transcription of ??

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, edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli)

Scots

Alternative forms

• thon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jon]
• (North Northern Scots, Orcadian) IPA^(key): [j?n]
• (Shetlandic) IPA^(key): [j?n]

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”)

Tatar

Etymology

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

Noun

yon

1. feather