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Yon vs Syon - What's the difference?

yon | syon |

As nouns the difference between yon and syon

is that yon is while syon is .

yon

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Adjective

(-)
  • (dated, or, dialect) That (thing) over there; of something distant, but within sight.
    • He went to climb yon hill.
  • * Milton
    • Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.
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    • Adverb

    (-)
  • (dated, or, dialect) Yonder.

    • Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (dated, or, dialect) That one or those over there.

    • Etymology 2

    Phrase

    (en-phrase)
  • (knitting)
  • * 2006 , Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting (page 222)
    • Buttonhole row: (K1, p1) 3 times, yon', k2tog, (k1,p1) 5 times, ' yon , k2tog,
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    syon

    English

    Noun

  • * 1483 , Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, Catholicon Anglicum , page 341
    • A Syon? or A twige?;?Aborigo & p''ro''p''r''ie e''st'' pl''u''r''al''is Num''er''i'', ''vitulame''n, ''frutex'', ''&'' cetera?;?''v''b''i twigge (A.).
  • * 1513 , , book 3?, lines 19–22; reprinted in:
  • * 1874 , and John Small [ed.], The poetical works of Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld?:?with memoir, notes, and glossary , page 120] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fb06AAAAMAAJ&q=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&dq=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&ei=0p_rSaPAIIyENKapuLQB&pgis=1 ?], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rjIhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&dq=%22thrid+syon+of+treis%22&ei=0p_rSaPAIIyENKapuLQB&pgis=1 ? (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??

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