yernen
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English geornan, girnan, from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną.
Verb edit
yernen
- to yearn; to yearn for
- to lust after
- c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
- Ichabbe y-yerned yore
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
- to wish
- to ask
References edit
- “yernen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.