A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Ȝond(e, Yond(e, adv. Also: ȝound, yound. [ME and e.m.E. ȝund (c1300), yond (c1350), ȝonde (Cursor M.), OE ᵹeond prep. Cf. Beȝond prep. and adv.] At a (far) distance. Also in fig. context. b. To cum yound, to come to (a place at) a far distance, to a place which is far away. c. Beyond, farther than a particular point.c1409-1436 Kingis Q. § 57.
Maist thou noght se Quho commyth ȝond? c1475 Wall. viii 761.
Thar ȝond apon a playn, In feild to fecht me think we suld be bayn 1513 Doug. x xiii 52.
Standand far onrovm ȝond [Ruddim. ȝonde] in the feild 1513 Doug. xi xv 4.
A weill lang space ȝond [Ruddim. ȝound] in the melle 1513 Doug. xii Prol. 9.
Saturn … stall abak ȝond in hys regioun far Behynd the circulat warld of Jupiter 15.. Clar. iii 2244.
Meliades and hir maistres … Sat still and held them quyet ȝond them fro 1571 Sempill in Sat. P. xxviii 54.
Than twa ȝeiris noueis … Ȝond in Kiluinning my prentischip I past 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 334.
He enterit to the futball. But [quhen] he had stricken the second strocke with his owin fute at the ball he fell on the grene. He araise againe, and past yonde to ane peit-stake 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xix.
His forbeares laire that lay in the yarde, if not farther yondfig. ?1644 W. Guthrie Serm. (1709) 24 (Jam. s.v. Yont).
As long as a people will hear reproof … there is ay some hopes in their latter end but when he that reproves in the gate makes himself a prey then they are far yond when they refuse to returnb. 1582 Fam. Rose 272.
I ressauit your … veild meit quhairof I hairtlie thank yow, thinking thairby that quhaitsumeuir part of the cuntray I am into ye ar nocht villing to lat me vant meitt. Wissing giff ye vald tak the panis quhane ye ar at maist leasair to cum yound and tak your part of your avin meitc. 1530–1 Acta Conc. MS XLII 38.
Lieutennent of the north partis of the realme fra the north wattir yond 1610 Milne-Home MSS 81.
To the hie gait and yond the gaite to the Fallay Birk
