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Yon vs Yron - What's the difference?

yon | yron |

As nouns the difference between yon and yron

is that yon is while yron 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.
  • *

    • 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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    yron

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The seven-fold yron gates of grislie Hell, And horrid house of sad Proserpina, They able are with power of mightie spell To breake, and thence the soules to bring awaie Out of dread darkenesse to eternall day, And them immortall make which els would die In foule forgetfulnesse, and nameles lie. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1600, author=Richard Hakluyt, title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And I went on bourd into one of them, wherein I could not finde any yron at all

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