sioun

Etymology
From and, , ; ultimately of  origin.

Noun
(plural siouns or siounes)


 * 1) scion
 * 2) offshoot
 * 3) * circa 1300–1305: Land Cokaygne, page 74
 * In þe praer is a tre … Þe rote is gingeuir and galingale, Þe siouns beþ al sedwale.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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}
 * "enm"

- {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.


 * 1) descendant