sayon

From Old French saye (“serge”).

sayon (plural sayons)

1. (historical) A medieval peasant's sleeveless jacket.

• Yanos, say no, Sonya, yanos, Ayons, oyans, Ayson

sayon

1. easy, simple, effortless

   Antonym: lisod

Probably from saie +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.jɔ̃/ ~ /se.jɔ̃/

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• Homophone: seillon

sayon m (plural sayons)

1. (obsolete) cassock, (coarse) jacket
   • 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné, section XIII:

     une froide averse d'automne éclata brusquement, et se déchargea à torrents dans la cour carrée, sur les têtes découvertes, sur les membres nus des galériens, sur leurs misérables sayons étalés sur le pavé.

     A cold autumn shower suddenly broke out, and poured torrentially down on the little square, on the uncovered heads and naked limbs of the convicts, on their miserable cassocks spread out on the cobblestones.

2. (historical) sagum

• “sayon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sayon

1. a female given name

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014) “sayon”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Aboriginal Names in Taiwan]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples