ayont

ayont

English

Alternative forms

• ayond, yont

Etymology

From a- +‎ yond.

Adverb

ayont (not comparable)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Beyond.

Preposition

ayont

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Beyond.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

     How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.

   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 485:

     Ayont the windows in the waning of the afternoon, Chris could see the frozen glister of night on the Grampians […].

Anagrams

• Ayton, Tonya, atony, tonya