Where does “geon” come from?

geon (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *jain, from Proto-Germanic jainaz, from Proto-Indo-European i- — that; he; a pronomial stem.

geon (Old English): that; yon

Definitions

  1. that; yon

Ancestry of “geon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*jain—
2Proto-Germanicjainazthat over there, yon
3Proto-Indo-Europeani-that; he; a pronomial stem

Words derived from “geon”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European i- →