yold

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English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjoʊld/

Etymology 1

From Middle English yold (“yielded”), from Old English ġeald (“yielded”), 1st and 3rd person preterite of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).

Verb

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

From Middle English yolde, yolden (“yielded”), from Old English ġegolden (“yielded”), past participle of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).

Alternative forms

yolden

Verb

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

Loyd, YLOD, odyl, oldy

Yola

Adjective

yold

Alternative form of yole
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
  Yold mawn.
  Old woman.

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 56

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