Yonder
/ˈjɒn.dər/noun
At or in that place over there; that one over there.
Did you know?Yonder comes from Old English and Germanic forms meaning “in that direction,” and it survives today as a rare fossil of how English once pointed through space with a single word.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*jainaz
“that, the other, yonder”
Old English
OE
ġeond
“over there, in that direction”
Middle English
ME
yonder
“at or in that place; in that direction”
Early Modern English
English
yonder
“over there, at some distance”
Modern English
English
yonder
“at or in that place over there”