yive

English

Etymology

From Middle English yiven, from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-e-ti, from *gʰebʰ- (“to give, move”). Doublet of give, from Old Norse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jɪv]

Verb

yive (third-person singular simple present yives, present participle yiving, simple past yave, past participle yiven)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, West Country, obsolete) To give.
   • 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, lines 2129–2130:

     To yive a man so litel thing / It were unworschipe in a king.

Related terms

• yift

Anagrams

• Ivey, ivey

Yola

Verb

yive

1. Alternative form of yie
   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:

     Fad didn't thou cum t' ouz phen w'ad zumthin to yive?

     [Why didn't you come to us when we had something to give?]

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 131