yon
よーん
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
yon は古風・方言的な指示語で、話し手から離れた「あの、向こうの」を表す。現代の日常英語では that や over there が普通だが、yon hill「向こうの丘」のように名詞の前で使われる。より見かけやすい yonder と結び、this―that―yon の順に距離が遠くなる感覚で覚える。
Treat yon as an old or regional pointing word for something noticeably distant: yon hill means “that hill over there.” Place it on a distance scale with this nearby, that farther away, and yon in the distance. Its close relative yonder is more likely to be recognized today and reinforces the same outward-pointing image. In ordinary modern conversation, speakers usually choose that, those, or over there, so yon often gives writing or speech a literary, rustic, or deliberately old-fashioned tone.
yon の類義語・関連語
yon の語源・成り立ち Etymology
yon は文語・方言で「向こうの、あそこの」を表し、古英語 geon「向こうに」にさかのぼる語。近くの this に対し、話し手から離れたものを指す感覚が中心で、「あの先にある」という距離感がそのまま意味になっている。関連語は yonder, beyond。
Yon descends from Old English geon, a demonstrative associated with something located at a distance. It belongs to the same historical group as yonder, which preserves the idea of “over there.” The word survived especially in regional varieties of English and in literary representations of older or rural speech. Its spelling is not a shortened form of beyond, although beyond contains a historically related pointing element.
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