yaud

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English [Term?]. Originally used to mean "mare", then "old mare". From Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (eľďe) or Erzya эльде (eľďe).^[1]^[2]

This term influenced and was influenced by jade, but is considered etymologically distinct by some references,^[1]^[2] while others consider the two terms to be variants of one another.^[3]

Noun edit

yaud (plural yauds)

(Scotland, Northern England) A workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.
- 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'tis Sixty Years Since, volume 2, published 1821, page 98:
  " […] Nay by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come for it with one of the yauds."
- a. 1835, “Seeking the Houdy”, in The Collected Works of James Hogg: Contributions to Annuals and Gift-books, James Hogg, published 2006, page 60:
  " […] Get on, my fine yaud, get on! There is nothing uncanny there."
  Robin coaxed thus, as well to keep up his own spirits, as to encourage his mare; for the truth is, that his hair began to stand on end with affright.
- 1846, Moses Aaron Richardson, The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurrences, page 106:
  […] he threw it overboard, subjecting it to a spell, that it never should be removed save by the co-operation of "Two twin yauds, two twin oxen, two twin lads, and a chain forged by a smith of kind."

Synonyms edit

(old horse): jade

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Per Thorson, Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects, volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms yaad, yaud, yawd, yoad, yod(e).... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON jalda 'made', Sw. dial. jäldä, from Finnish elde (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. jade is not related."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. jāde MnE. jade and ME. jald MnE. dial. yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically."
^ Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English →ISBN, 2006)

Anagrams edit

yadu

[Thorson-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Per Thorson, Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects, volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms yaad, yaud, yawd, yoad, yod(e).... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON jalda 'made', Sw. dial. jäldä, from Finnish elde (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. jade is not related."

[Saga-Book-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research, page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. jāde MnE. jade and ME. jald MnE. dial. yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically."

[3] Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English →ISBN, 2006)

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