yive
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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
Verb
yive (third-person singular simple present yives, present participle yiving, simple past yave, past participle yiven)
- (transitive, nonstandard, West Country, obsolete) To give.
Related terms
Anagrams
Yola
Verb
yive
- 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
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