yernen
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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.
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