sioun

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cioun, ciun, cyun, scion, scioun, sion, siun, syon, syoun

Etymology

From Old French sion and cion, ciun, chion; ultimately of Germanic origin.

Noun

sioun (plural siouns or siounes)

1. scion
   1. offshoot
      • circa 1300–1305: Land Cokaygne, page 74

        In þe praer is a tre … Þe rote is gingeuir and galingale, Þe siouns beþ al sedwale.

      • circa 1380: John Wycliffe, Select English works, book 1, page 166

        As a sioun mai not bere fruyt but if it stonde stable in þe vyne.

      • 1382–1388: John Wycliffe; The Holy Bible, made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers; first edition (1382), Ezekiel 17:6^{1}; second edition (1388), Numbers 13:24^{2} and Jeremiah 5:10^{3}

        ^{1} Þe sed … is mad in to a vineȝerd & made frut in to siounes [L palmites].
        ^{2} Thei ȝeden til to the stronde of clustre and kittiden doun a sioun with his grape, which twei men baren in a barre.
        ^{3} Do ȝe awei the siouns therof, for thei ben not seruauntis of the Lord.

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   2. descendant

Descendants

• English: scion