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English
Adjective
yeld (not comparable)
- barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
1985, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Official Report, 5th Series, page 227:With regard to the yeld ewes, untupped, may I ask the Minister what this means?
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English yeld, from Old English ġelde (“barren, unproductive”), probably borrowed from Old Norse geldr (“barren, yielding no milk”), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (“barren, unfruitful”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, cry”). Related to Swedish gall (“barren”), German galt, gelt (“yielding no milk, unfruitful”), Old Norse gelda (“to castrate”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
yeld (comparative mair yeld, superlative maist yeld)
- barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
- not fertile, unproductive, ineffectual, lacking in substance or value, unprofitable (of inanimate things)
Descendants
Noun
yeld (plural yelds)
- barren ewe or cow, etc.
Verb
yeld (third-person singular simple present yelds, present participle yeldin, simple past yeldt, past participle yeldt)
- to cease to milk a pregnant cow when the flow stops before calving