Yonder
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:50 pm
A nice word still in use in these h'yar parts (Western NC).
Interesting that that is considered ungrammatical.
yonder
c.1300, from O.E. geond (see yond) + comp. suffix -er. Now replaced except in poetic usage by ungrammatical that.
yond
O.E. geond (adv., prep.) "beyond, yonder," rel. to geon (see yon).
yon
geon (adj.) "that (over there)," perhaps from P.Gmc. *jenaz (cf. O.Fris. jen, O.N. enn, O.H.G. ener, M.Du. ghens, Ger. jener, Goth. jains "that, you"). Outside Gmc., cognates include Skt. ena-, third person pronoun, anena "that;" O.C.S. onu "he;" Lith. ans "he."
beyond
O.E. begeondan "from the farther side," from be "by" + geond "yonder" (prep.), from P.Gmc. *jandana.
Interesting that that is considered ungrammatical.