See also: yad, yâd, and það

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y'ad

  1. (obsolete) Contraction of ye had.
    • 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 59:
      If you preſs it further, they’ll tell you preſently, here have been ſuch and ſuch Counts and Marquiſes, that found no fault with this Wine : If you don’t like it, y’ad beſt mend your ſelf elſewhere.

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