different between yon vs yoni

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ???? (yoni).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??ni/
• Rhymes: -??ni

Noun

yoni (plural yonis)

1. The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.
   • 2004, Johanna Wikoff, Deborah Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra, Alpha Books 2004, p. 242:

     Stroke your partner's thighs and caress her breasts as you make love to her yoni with your mouth and tongue.

   • 2001, David Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Oxford 2001, p. 205:

     In Hinduism [...] and Tantrism [...], the yoni is the generative organ of the Goddess.

   • 1997, David R Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, University of California 1997, p. 235:

     The goddess blesses him by placing his li?gam in her yoni.

Derived terms

• yonic
• yoni egg
• yoni massage

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?.ni/

Noun

yoni m (plural yonis)

1. yoni

Javanese

Romanization

yoni

1. Romanization of ?????

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

yoni ?

1. womb
2. origin