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yonder, adv. and a. (pron., n.) Now only literary and somewhat arch., or dial.|ˈjɒndə(r)|
Forms: α. 4–5 (6 Sc.) ȝonder, -ir, (4 ȝionder, ȝundir, yunder, 5 ȝondur, -yr, yondur), 5–6 yondre, (6 ȝondar, Sc. ȝounder, 7 younder), 4– yonder; 4 yonþer, 6–7 yonther; 6, 9 dial. yander. β. 4 ȝender, 5 -ir, -yr, yendre, yeinder, 5–6 yender, 7 dial. yeander, 9 dial. yinder.
[ME. ȝonder, ȝender, corresp. to OS. gendra adj. on this side, MLG. ginder, gender, LG. gunter, Du., WFris. ginder, Goth. jaindrê (cf. hidrê hither): see yon a.]
A. adv.
1. a. At or in that place; there; usually implying that the object spoken of is at some distance but within sight: Over there, away there.
αa1300Cursor M. 2717 Þan asked þai quare was sarra. Abraham said, ‘yonder wit-in’. Ibid. 3148 ‘Yonder vp,’ he said, ‘on yon fell Sal þou bren þi sun for me’. 13..Ibid. 19899 (Edinb.) Lo! ȝionder þre Men..er sende to seke þe. 13..Ibid. 14976 (Gött.) Þe stede es yonþer, lo! c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 402 Sum men seien þat he is ȝundir at Rome. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 920 Whos is that faire child that stondeth yonder? 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. lxxxii. 43/1, I wyll nat departe hens tyll I se what company is yander within the castell. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 163 Looke who comes yonder. 1641Brome Joviall Crew i. (1652) C 2 b, I left the merry Griggs..in such a Hoigh younder! 1667Davenant & Dryden Tempest iv. iii. (1670) 63 Mark her behaviour too, she's tippling yonder with the serving-men. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xii, But, as I live, yonder comes Moses. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxvi, ‘The limes’, he assured us, ‘were from his own little farm yonder-awa’ (indicating the West Indies with a knowing shrug of his shoulders). 1863Reade Hard Cash x, You sits yander fit to bust: but..ye never offers me none on't. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. x, To the white cottage yonder on the lower ground across the meadows.
β13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1617 Þaȝ þe mater be merk þat merked is ȝender. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 138 Þis man is Jesus þat stondiþ ȝendre on þe banke. c1450Lydg. Life Our Lady lii. (MS. Ashm. 39), Loke vp yender & se the sercle of golde. c1485Digby Myst. iii. 1438 Yender is þe lond of satyllye. 1674Ray N.C. Words 55 Yeander, Yonder, Var. Dial. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Yinder, adv. yonder.
b. To that place; thither.
c1300Havelok 922 Go þu yunder, and sit þore. 13..Cursor M. 3065 (Gött.) Lede him ȝender [Cott. yonder]. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon iv. 127 Lady, I goo yonder wythout. 1535Coverdale Gen. xxii. 5 As for me and the childe, we wyl go yonder.
c. in phr. here and yonder, hither and yonder: cf. yon adv. b, yond adv. 1 c.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 4291 As he rod among hem here & ȝonder. c1485Digby Myst. iii. 1346 Now have þe dysypylles take þer passage to dyvers contreys her and ȝondyr. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 221/2 Gangs of street paviors were seen and heard here, there, and yonder.
†2. Farther. Obs. rare.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 33 Som men wolde mene þat Loegria endeþ at Homber, and streccheþ no ȝonder [Caxton ferther] northward.
B. adj.
1. With the.
a. Farther, more distant, ‘other’: = yon a. 2, yond a.1 1.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2440 Syn ȝe be lorde of þe ȝonder londe. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 173 Þere is anoþer Pannonia be ȝonde þe wateres Meotides in þe ȝonder Scythia. Ibid. 299 Þe hyder bygynneþ from þe pleynes and valeys of Pireneies... Þe ȝonder Spayne conteyneþ þe west partye anoon to þe see Gaditanus. c1450in Aungier Syon (1840) 345 The seyd brother schal se that ther be a lectron set in the ȝendyr corner of the ambytus for redyng of the gosbel towarde the este. 1513Douglas æneis vi. v. 166 Vncallit, on the ȝondir bray wald thow be. 1609Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 51/2 Terras de Bruntskeath,..Over et Nethir Lagane,..Hither and Yonther Barscheuallis. 1899Mrs. H. Fraser Dipl. Wife in Japan xxxv. II. 313 His dead name, the one by which his shadowy companions call him in the yonder world. 1909Meredith ‘The Years had worn their seasons' belt’ ix, O she was fair as a beech in May With the sun on the yonder side. 1910Dublin Rev. Jan. 64 Something on the yonder side of imagery.
b. = 2.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1188 Nece who hath arayed þus The yonder hous þat stant a-forn yeyn vs? c1380Sir Ferumb. 930 Olyuer my felaw ys take! y-seeþ þat ȝonder company how þay him ledeþ away. c1400Rom. Rose 4018 The yonder man to shenden vs alle. a1425Cursor M. 1251 (Trin.) Towarde þe eest ende of þe ȝondur [Cott., Fairf. þis, Gött. þe] vale. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4727 Toward the ost of the yendre kinges Ne made I neuer louely lookinges. c1480Henryson Paddock & Mouse 77 That thow wald gyde me to ȝone ȝonder land [Bann. How thow wald gyd me to þe yondir land].
2. That is yonder; usually, and in later literary use always, implying that the thing spoken of is at some distance but within sight: cf. yon a. 1.
αc1400Destr. Troy 8837 We hade hertely no hope..Yonder toun for to take. a1413Anturs of Arthur (Ireland MS.) xlix, Ȝondur byrnes [Thornton MS. ȝone beryns] in batelle, that bidus on the bent. c1450Mirk's Festial 39 Hit wer almes forto ȝeue ȝondyr pore man warmer cloþes þen he haþe. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. lxxxvii. h iij, It shuld be great honour for vs if we might delyuer out of daunger yonther two knyghtes. a1533― Huon xxiv. 70 Yonder company are fooles. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 61 Yet you, the murtherer, looke as bright, as cleare, As yonder Venus, in her glimmering spheare. 1615Jackson Creed iv. vi. §7 This is profitable, That is pleasant, we shall not then say, but yonder other truly good and honest. 1671Milton Samson 3 Yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 219 Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high. 1842Tennyson E. Gray i, Sweet Emma Moreland of yonder town Met me walking on yonder way. 1850― In Mem. xv, To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day.
βc1440Generydes 2777 On yender towre on highe. a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) iii. 52 Mother, my father after thee sende, And byddes thee into yeinder shippe wende. 1563Googe Eglogs i. (Arb.) 32 The Hylles..that ioyne to yender towne. 1755Gammer Gurton i. v, Chaue tost and tumbled yender heap ouer and ouer againe.
†3. (with this or that) Qualifying day, night: Lately past, ‘other’. (Cf. ender a., hinder a. 2, and yonders.) Obs.
a1425Cursor M. 4561 (Trin.) Me þouȝte þat þis ȝonder [v.r. ender] nyȝt I coom in a medewe briȝt. Ibid. 13559 Art þou not he Þat ȝondir day miȝtes not se? a1450Le Morte Arth. 1105, I gabbyd on hym thys ȝendyr day.
C. pron. (sing. or pl.: † also with the: absol. use of B. 1 b, 2): = yon pron. Now dial.
c1375Cursor M. 4891 (Fairf.) Ȝonder ar theues we lelmen wende. c1430Chev. Assigne 232 And þe ȝondur is my qwene betryce she hette. 1855Browning Grammarian's Funeral 7 Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock-row! 1880Sat. Rev. 2 Oct. 423/2 A closely-shaven curate, who was walking down a street clad in his cassock, was once horrified by hearing shouted across the road an inquiry whether ‘yonder was a lad or a lass’.
D. as n.
1. (nonce-use.) Something beyond.
1888Meredith Hymn to Colour vii, His touch is infinite and lends A yonder to all ends.
2. [After quot. 1939.] The far and trackless distance; usu. with preceding adj.
1939R. Crawford Army Air Corps (song), Off we go in to the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun. 1948N.Y. World Telegram 30 Dec. 11/6 A pilot..took wing into that wonderful yonder on a training flight. 1967C. Cockburn I, Claud xxxiii. 410 The ex-editor of The Week had suddenly appeared out of the deep green yonder of Ireland. 1974Times 26 Feb. 12/3 Mr. Wilson's..policy for controlling inflation, which consists of holding down prices by law while letting wages go up, up, up into the wide blue yonder. 1979‘D. Kyle’ Green River High viii. 103 My father had vanished into the great green yonder of a million square miles of jungle. 1985W. Golding Egyptian Journal iv. 57 Minya is a centre for scarpering, for fading away, for disappearing into the blue yonder.
Hence ˈyonderly a. dial., ‘distant’, reserved, sullen; depressed, gloomy, melancholy; † yondermair adv. Sc., farther; † yondermest a. Sc., farthest, most distant (cf. yondmost); † yonderward adv. [cf. Du. ginderwaerts], in yonder or the other direction, thither; farther off; † yonderway, by that way, in that manner.
1828Craven Gloss., *Yonderly, grave, sullen, distant. I have not often heard this word. 1863Waugh Lanc. Songs 28 Thae's looked very yonderly mony a day.
1513Douglas æneis viii. xi. 48 Syne *ȝonder mayr was schapin in the feild The dansand prestis, clepit Salii. 1808Jamieson s.v. Yound, Sit yontermert,..sit farther off.
1513Douglas æneis viii. xii. 31 The *ȝondermaist [v.r. The zoundermest] pepill, clepit Baktranis.
Ibid. x. vi. 148 Nou presis this syde, and now *ȝonderwart. 1535Coverdale 1 Sam. xx. 37 The arowe lyeth yonderwarde before the.
1570Levins Manip. 197/7 *Yonderway, illac, illo modo. |