Yon
/jɒn/noun
That one over there; at some distance from the speaker.
Did you know?Yon is an old English demonstrative that survived as a poetic, regional, or archaic word, and it likely goes back to the same ancient pronoun system that gave English words like yonder and that.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*to-
“A demonstrative/pronominal stem meaning 'that' or 'the'.”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*þan(a)-
“A distal demonstrative element, 'that there'.”
Old English
OE
geon
“That, yon; over there.”
Middle English
ME
yon
“That one, that there.”
Modern English
English
yon
“Poetic, dialectal, or archaic word for 'that one over there'.”