yold
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English yold (“yielded”), from Old English ġeald (“yielded”), 1st and 3rd person preterite of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).
Verb edit
yold
- (obsolete) simple past of yield.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The soring clouds into sad showres ymolt;
So to her yold the flames, and did their force revolt
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English yolde, yolden (“yielded”), from Old English ġegolden (“yielded”), past participle of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
yold
- (obsolete) past participle of yield
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- to yield him loue she doth deny,
Once to me yold, not to be yold againe […]
Anagrams edit
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Adjective edit
yold
- Alternative form of yole
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Yold mawn.
- Old woman.
References edit
- 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 56