ayont

English

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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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 485:
      Ayont the windows in the waning of the afternoon, Chris could see the frozen glister of night on the Grampians […].

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