yestern
English
editEtymology
editPerhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Adjective
edityestern (not comparable)
- (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- 1868, John Conington, transl., The Iliad of Homer:
- Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
Her yestern debt […]
Adverb
edityestern (not comparable)
Noun
edityestern (plural yesterns)
- (archaic) Yesterday.
- 1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu, editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems[3], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 85:
- Yestern was the day of hail, […]
- 1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century[4], Digitized edition, published 2012, page 305:
- Yestern, who was there could compete with me in strength?
Translations
edityesterday
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