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) scion 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} descendant ==== Descendants ==== English: scion ==== References ====