English

Noun

syon

1. Obsolete spelling of scion
   • 1483, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, Catholicon Anglicum, page 341

     A Syon̄ or A twige ; Aborigo & proprie est pluralis Numeri, vitulamen, frutex, & cetera ; vbi twigge (A.).

   • 1513, Virgil, Maffeo Vegio, and Bishop Gawin Douglas [tr.], Eneados, book 3^?, lines 19–22; reprinted in:
   • 1874, Bishop Gawin Douglas and John Small [ed.], The poetical works of Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld : with memoir, notes, and glossary, page 120 ^{〃, 〃} (W. Paterson)

     Bot eftir that the thrid syon of treis,
     

     Apon the sandis sittand on my kneis,
     

     I schupe to haue wprevin with mair preise,
     

     Quhidder sall I speik now, or hald my peice ?

Anagrams

• nosy, Sony, sony

Middle English

Noun

syon (plural syons or maybe syonys)

1. Alternative spelling of sioun
   1. offshoot
      • circa 1450: Gertrude Mechthild^?, The booke of gostlye grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn, page 330/2

        In þe vyneȝerde were syonys of the vyne plantede.

      • ante 1475: Grafting; reprinted in:
      • 1855, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Early English miscellanies: in prose and verse, writ IX, page 72

        Also, he that wylle have rosys tymely to blowe, dewe heme abowte the space of ij. hand-brede, and moyste her syons oft tymys with hoote water.

   2. descendant
      • circa 1350–1390: [early poem], lines 25–28; reprinted in:
      • 1878, Carl Horstmann, Altenglische Legenden, page 10

        OÞer þou maiȝt wel diuise
        

        Þe nome of Ambros in þis wyse :
        

        Ambrum is to seye fadur of liht,
        

        And syon a luytel child ful riht.

Old French

Noun

syon m ‎(oblique plural syons, nominative singular syons, nominative plural syon)

1. point; tip (sharp vertex)

Descendants

• Middle English: syon
  • English: scion (etc.)
• French: scion