yold

English

Etymology 1

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

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Verb

yold

  1. (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 […]

Etymology 2

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

Verb

yold

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense of yield.

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