different between thither vs yon

English

Etymology

From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ð?ð??/, /???ð??/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Adverb

thither (not comparable)

1. (chiefly literary or law, dated) To that place.

   • Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops:

     And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.

2. (dated) To that point, end, or result.

Synonyms

• there, over there, away there; yonder (archaic or dialect)

Antonyms

• thence

Derived terms

Related terms

• hither
• whither

Translations

Adjective

thither (not comparable)

1. (archaic) The farther, the other and more distant.

Synonyms

• See farther

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