yode

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 (go), Russian идти (idti, go).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jəʊd/
  • Rhymes: -əʊd

Verb

yode

  1. (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.

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