adv. and a. (pron., sb.) Now only literary and somewhat arch., or dial. 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. At or in that place; there: usually implying that the object spoken of is at some distance but within sight: Over there, away there.
α. a. 1300. Cursor 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.’ Ibid. (13[?]), 19899 (Edinb.). Lo! ȝionder þre Men … er sende to seke þe. Ibid. (13[?]), 14976 (Gött.). Þe stede es yonþer, lo!
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 402. Sum men seien þat he is ȝundir at Rome.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Man of Law’s T., 920. Whos is that faire child that stondeth yonder?
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. lxxxii. 43/1. I wyll nat departe hens tyll I se what company is yander within the castell.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., II. i. 163. Looke who comes yonder.
1641. Brome, Joviall Crew, I. (1652), C 2 b. I left the merry Griggs … in such a Hoigh younder!
1667. Davenant & Dryden, Tempest, IV. iii. (1670), 63. Mark her behaviour too, she’s tippling yonder with the serving-men.
1766. Goldsm., Vicar W., xii. But, as I live, yonder comes Moses.
1818. Scott, 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).
1863. Reade, Hard Cash, x. You sits yander fit to bust: but … ye never offers me none on’t.
1876. Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., x. To the white cottage yonder on the lower ground across the meadows.
β. 13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1617. Þaz þe mater be merk þat merked is ȝender.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 138. Þis man is Jesus þat stondiþ ȝendre on þe banke.
c. 1450. Lydg., Life Our Lady, lii. (MS. Ashm. 39). Loke vp yender & se the sercle of golde.
c. 1485. Digby Myst., III. 1438. Yender is þe lond of satyllye.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 55. Yeander, Yonder, Var. Dial.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Yinder, adv. yonder.
b. To that place; thither.
c. 1300. Havelok, 922. Go þu yunder, and sit þore.
13[?]. Cursor M., 3065 (Gött.). Lede him ȝender [Cott. yonder].
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, iv. 127. Lady, I goo yonder wythout.
1535. Coverdale, 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.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. 4291. As he rod among hem here & ȝonder.
c. 1485. Digby Myst., III. 1346. Now have þe dysypylles take þer passage to dyvers contreys her and ȝondyr.
1883. G. W. Cable, in Century Mag., XXVI. 221/1. By 1822 gangs of street paviors were seen and heard here, there, and yonder, swinging the pick and ramming the roundstone.
† 2. Farther. Obs. rare.
1387. Trevisa, 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.
1387. Trevisa, 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.
c. 1450. in 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.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. v. 166. Vncallit, on the ȝondir bray wald thow be.
1609. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 51/2. Terras de Bruntskeath,… Over et Nethir Lagane,… Hither and Yonther Barscheuallis.
1899. Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Dipl. Wife in Japan, xxxv. II. 313. His dead name, the one by which his shadowy companions call him in the yonder world.
1909. Meredith, ‘The Years had worn their seasons’ belt,’ ix. O she was fair as a beech in May With the sun on the yonder side.
1910. Alice Meynell, in Dublin Rev., Jan., 64. here is … the simplicity of poetry and the simplicity of Nature, something on the yonder side of imagery.
b. = 2.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 1188. Nece who hath arayed þus The yonder hous þat stant a-forn yeyn vs?
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 930. Olyuer my felaw ys take! y-seeþ þat ȝonder company how þay him ledeþ away.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 4018. The yonder man to shenden vs alle.
a. 1425. Cursor M., 1251 (Trin.). Towarde þe eest ende of þe ȝondur [Cott., Fairf. þis, Gött. þe] vale.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 4727. Toward the ost of the yendre kinges Ne made I neuer louely lookinges.
c. 1480. Henryson, 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.
α. c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 8837. We hade hertely no hope … Yonder toun for to take.
a. 1413. Anturs of Arthur (Ireland MS.), xlix. Ȝondur byrnes [Thornton MS. ȝone beryns] in batelle, that bidus on the bent.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 39. Hit wer almes forto ȝeue ȝondyr pore man warmer cloþes þen he haþe.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. lxxxvii. h iij. It shuld be great honour for vs if we might delyuer out of daunger yonther two knyghtes. Ibid. (a. 1533), Huon, xxiv. 70. Yonder company are fooles.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., III. ii. 61. Yet you, the murtherer, looke as bright, as cleare, As yonder Venus, in her glimmering spheare.
1615. Jackson, Creed, IV. vi. § 7. This is profitable, That is pleasant, we shall not then say, but yonder other truly good and honest.
1671. Milton, Samson, 3. Yonder bank hath choice of Sun or shade.
1770. Goldsm., Des. Vill., 219. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high.
1842. Tennyson, E. Gray, i. Sweet Emma Moreland of yonder town Met me walking on yonder way. Ibid. (1850), In Mem., xv. To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day.
β. c. 1440. Generydes, 2777. On yender towre on highe.
a. 1500[?]. Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.), iii. 52. Mother, my father after thee sende, And byddes thee into yeinder shippe wende.
1563. Googe, Eglogs, i. (Arb.), 32. The Hylles … that ioyne to yender towne.
1575. Gammer 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.
a. 1425. Cursor 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?
a. 1450. Le 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.
c. 1375. Cursor M., 4891 (Fairf.). Ȝonder ar theues we lelmen wende.
c. 1430. Chev. Assigne, 232. And þe ȝondur is my qwene betryce she hette.
1855. Browning, Grammarian’s Funeral, 7. Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock-row!
1880. Sat. 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 sb. (nonce-use.) Something Something beyond.
1888. Meredith, Hymn to Colour, vii. His touch is infinite and lends A yonder to all ends.
Hence Yonderly 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.
1823. Craven Gloss., *Yonderly, grave, sullen, distant. I have not often heard this word.
1863. Waugh, Lanc. Songs, 28. Thae’s looked very yonderly mony a day.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. xi. 48. Syne *ȝonder mayr was schapin in the feild The dansand prestis, clepit Salii.
1808. Jamieson, s.v. Yound, Sit yontermert,… sit farther off.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. xii. 31. The *ȝondermaist [v.r. The zoundermest] pepill, clepit Baktranis. Ibid., X. vi. 148. Nou presis this syde, and now *ȝonderwart.
1535. Coverdale, 1 Sam. xx. 37. The arowe lyeth yonderwarde before the.
1570. Levins, Manip., 197/7. *Yonderway, illac, illo medo.
