Dyon

Dyon

1. A surname.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dyon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 506.

Modified from Dijon. The digraph <ij> is fairly rare among European languages, but it is common in Dutch, and in older Dutch spellings it is generally interchangeable with <y>. Thus, some people may think <ij> is "too Dutch" for a foreign word, and that it therefore must be a misspelling for <y>. Compare byou.

Dyon n

1. (hyperforeign) alternative form of Dijon