different between soon vs syon

English

Etymology

From Middle English soone, sone, from Old English s?na (“immediately, at once”), from Proto-West Germanic *s?n(?), from Proto-Germanic *s?na, *s?nô (“immediately, soon, then”), from *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun).

Cognate with Scots sone, sune, schone (“soon, quickly, at once”), North Frisian san (“immediately, at once”), dialectal Dutch zaan (“soon, before long”), Middle Low German sân (“right afterwards, soon”), Middle High German s?n, son (“soon, then”), Old High German s?r (“immediately, soon”). Compare also Gothic ???????????????? (suns, “immediately, soon”), from Proto-Germanic *suniz (“soon”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so?on, IPA^(key): /su?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Adjective

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. Short in length of time from the present.

   I need the soonest date you have available.

2. (US, dialect) early
   • 1992, W. H. Andrews: A Paul Green Reader, p 129:

     Late in the evening we arrived at Quincy where we bivouacked for the night and taken a soon start the next morning to march to the arsenal.

   • 1997, Dorothy Stanaland Samuel, Taliaferro Leslie Samuel: The Samuell/Samuel Families of Tidewater Virginia, p 148:

     Got up pretty early, ate a soon breakfast, had the sulky and was about to start to Newtown when it commenced raining..

   • 2000, Laurence G. Avery: A Paul Green Reader, p 220:

     They were different from colored folks who had to be out to get a soon start.

Adverb

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
2. Within a short time; quickly.
3. (now dialectal) Early.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Exodus 2:18,^[1]

     How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1978, Chapter 6, p. 87,^[2]

     “Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked.

     “Seen ’im soon dis mornin’ over behind de school-house,” Lum said. “’’Bout ten o’clock or so. He musta been out all night tuh be way over dere dat early.”

4. Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.
   • 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian No. 101

     I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• soon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• noos, noso-, onos, oons, sono-

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• sogn (Sappada, Sauris)

Etymology

From Old High German sag?n, from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek?-.

Compare Low German seggen, Dutch zeggen, English say, Danish sige, Swedish säga.

Verb

soon

1. (Timau) to say

References

• “soon” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sooni, from Proto-Uralic *sëne. Cognates include with Finnish suoni, Mansi ???? (t?n) andHungarian ín (“sinew”).

Noun

soon (genitive soone, partitive soont)

1. vein, blood vessel

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Wolof

Etymology

From French jaune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n/

Verb

soon

1. to be yellow

English

Noun

syon

1. Obsolete spelling of scion
   • 1483, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, Catholicon Anglicum, page 341

     A Syon? or A twige?;?Aborigo & proprie est pluralis Numeri, vitulamen, frutex, & cetera?;?vbi twigge (A.).

   • 1513, Virgil, Maffeo Vegio, and Bishop Gawin Douglas [tr.], Eneados, book 3^?, lines 19–22; reprinted in:
   • 1874, Bishop Gawin Douglas and John Small [ed.], The poetical works of Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld?:?with memoir, notes, and glossary, page 120 ^{?, ?} (W. Paterson)

     Bot eftir that the thrid syon of treis,
     

     Apon the sandis sittand on my kneis,
     

     I schupe to haue wprevin with mair preise,
     

     Quhidder sall I speik now, or hald my peice??

Anagrams

• Sony, Yons, nosy, noys, sony, syno

Middle English

Noun

syon (plural syons or maybe syonys)

1. Alternative spelling of sioun
   1. offshoot
      • circa 1450: Gertrude Mechthild^?, The booke of gostlye grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn, page 330/2

        In þe vyne?erde were syonys of the vyne plantede.

      • ante 1475: Grafting; reprinted in:
      • 1855, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Early English miscellanies: in prose and verse, writ IX, page 72

        Also, he that wylle have rosys tymely to blowe, dewe heme abowte the space of ij. hand-brede, and moyste her syons oft tymys with hoote water.

   2. descendant
      • circa 1350–1390: [early poem], lines 25–28; reprinted in:
      • 1878, Carl Horstmann, Altenglische Legenden, page 10

        OÞer þou mai?t wel diuise
        

        Þe nome of Ambros in þis wyse?:
        

        Ambrum is to seye fadur of liht,
        

        And syon a luytel child ful riht.

Old French

Noun

syon m (oblique plural syons, nominative singular syons, nominative plural syon)

1. point; tip (sharp vertex)

Descendants

• Middle English: syon
  • English: scion (etc.)
• French: scion