Middle English Dictionary Entry
yond adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | yond adj. Also younde, yend(e. |
| Etymology | From yond adv. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. ayond-half adv. & prep.
1.
As dem. adj., pointing to a person or thing: that…over there, that; also those…over there, those: (a) with noun only;
(b) with intervening adj.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5862 : Lo, ȝond men ledeþ Leodegan Ybounden toward king Rion.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3384 : Ȝond kniȝt þat komeþ here armed dredeþ litel oure dedes.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28011 : Yee leuedis…sai to yond maidens als, Yee wene may traist þat es vntreu.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)171/5100 : Yond same is fortune; how knowe ye hir not?
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)11 : Y tak non hede of yond womans wordes, for sheo nys bot a drunkine fule.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)495 : This dede saw the lady clere…she sayd for thy, ‘Younde dede ys doon full gentilly.’
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)67/102 : What man may of yond meruell meyn? Yonder I se a selcowth syght…A bush I se burnand full bryght.
b
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.102r : For as myche as this forsaiden archebisshop a this syde and a yende syde in all holynesse and conuersacion of good lyf hath iplesed vs...
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)18115 : With ȝond ȝongest boye þe bus with fayrnes fand to foyb [read: foyl] þat fode.
- a1500 Degrev.(Cmb Ff.1.6)1147 : Ȝond gentyl [Thrn: Þe doghtty] knyȝt on grene Haþ deseruyd þe gre.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3160 : Prise of þis prouynse are in yond proude yle.
2.
Situated farther away, more remote, farther; ~ half, the far side; the other side.
Associated quotations
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10588 : Twa tuness wærenn i þatt land…Þatt an wass o ȝonnd hallf þe flumm & o þiss hallf þatt oþerr.
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)256/10 : Zoþnesse halt þise riȝtuolle waye…þis waye ne ssel hongi of þis half ne of yend half, ariȝthalf ne alefthalf.
- ?c1350 Ballad Sc.Wars (Jul A.5)200 : His wonyng-stede es on yondalf Tyne; On southalf Tyne sal he wone.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)5367 : Fro þe ȝond pauyllons prykeþ a knyȝt.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.35 : In Seint Edward his tyme Walsche men schulde not passe þat diche…Bot now in eiþer side, boþe of ȝond half and on þis half þe diche…beeþ Englische men i-medled to gidres.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)775/31 : The next partie þerof [Carthage] bereþ corne and hath grete plente of oyle and of fruyt and is ful of metalle; The ȝende partie [L pars vlterior] þat is toward Munidia [read: Numidia] is y-ocupiede wiþ beestes, serpentz and grete wylde asses.
- a1500 Degrev.(Cmb Ff.1.6)622 : I rede we hye vs ful ȝerne In at þe ȝond posterne [Thrn: þe posterne].