yode
English
Etymology
From Middle English ȝode, ȝede, eode, from Old English ēode, from Proto-Germanic *ijj-, a suppletive past tense form to Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), and further from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“go”). Cognate with Latin eō (“go”), Russian идти (idti, “go”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jəʊd/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Verb
yode
- (obsolete) simple past of go; went.
- 1858, George MacDonald, chapter 19, in Phantastes: A Faerie Romance:
- Sir Aglovaile through the churchyard those;
Sing, All alone I lie
Little recked where'er he yode,
All alone, up in the sky.