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▪ I. thon, dem. pron. and a. dial.|ðɒn|
[app. a comparatively recent alteration of yon, the initial consonant being assimilated to this and that. (A suggestion that it arose from misreading the written y as the compendious form of th, as in y⊇, yis, yat, yem, yairof, etc., is, in view of the wide popular diffusion of thon and thonder, inadequate.)]
= yon: the demonstrative pron. and adj., pointing to something more remote in place or time than that: = L. ille, Sp. aquello.
Used in Scotland, Ulster, and the four northern English counties. Written examples not found before 1800; app. not in Ramsay nor in Burns.
1804W. Tarras Poems 96 (Jam.) Leuk down the gate, what squabble's thon, That ca's the thrang's attention? 1808Jamieson Sc. Dict., Thone, yonder, yon. 1818S. E. Ferrier Marriage I. ii. 18 ‘Hoose!’ repeated the driver, ‘ca’ ye thon a hoose? Thon's gude Glenfern Castle’. 1886R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) II. viii. 39 Strange conduc' o' thon man Rankeillor. 1893― Catriona 136 I'll no forget thon of the cinnamon water. 1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. 727 Whe's thon? Whe's thon chep? De ye see thon hoose ower there? [1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Scotland (Aberdeen to Roxb.), Ulster, Northumberland, Durham.]
So thonder |ˈðɒndə(r)| adv. and a. dial. (also thaander, thander, thender, thinder) = yonder.
Used in Scotland, Ulster, England from north border to Hereford, Leicester, E. Anglia.
a1825Forby Vocab. E. Anglia, Thinder, adv., v. Yinder. c1847[Common in Roxburghsh.] Thonder adv. 18..Robson Bards of Tyne (1863) 441 Then at last, aw heard her say, O! thonder is the Gardens. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., He lives over thender. 1876T. M. Bound Provinc. Herefordsh. (E.D.D.), Thander one is the man. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. Introd. 50 Yander, thander, adj. 1887Darlington Folk-sp. S. Cheshire 70 Yonder has the forms yondur, yaandur, and dhondur. 1899Blackw. Mag. Feb. 168, (Sc.) I didna mak verra muckle o' the fairming up-bye thonder.
▪ II. thon, þon
obs. f. than, then; obs. inflexion of the. |