yive
English
Etymology
From Middle English yiven, from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-e-ti, from *gʰebʰ- (“to give, move”). Doublet of give, from Old Norse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [jɪv]
Verb
yive (third-person singular simple present yives, present participle yiving, simple past yave, past participle yiven)
- (transitive, obsolete) To give.
- 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, lines 2129-2130:
- To yive a man so litel thing / It were unworschipe in a king.
- 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, lines 2129-2130:
Anagrams
- Ivey, ivey