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yan

numeralnumeraldeterminercommon in dialogue

  • //jæn//
  • //jɛn//

One.

numeral

  1. 1

    One.

Etymology

Along with ane and yen, a Cumbrian and Northumbrian form of one, from the Old English ān. An example is "yan, twee, tree, fower" for "one, two, three, four".

numeral

  1. 1

    One in Cumbrian sheep counting rhyme.

Etymology

From Brythonic numerals, with influence from Old English ān or modern Northern English yan or Northern English yen.

determiner

  1. 1

    Synonym of yonder

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).