yold
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English yolde, yolden (“yielded”), from Old English ġegolden (“yielded”), past particple of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).
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Verb[edit]
yold
- (obsolete) Past participle of yield
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- to yield him loue she doth deny, / Once to me yold, not to be yold againe [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English yold (“yielded”), from Old English ġeald (“yielded”), 1st and 3rd person preterite of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).
Verb[edit]
yold
