yeat

English

Noun

yeat (plural yeats)

  1. (dialectal, Northern Ireland) Alternative spelling of gate, obsolete except in place names.

See also
  • (Geordie & Scottish spelling.) yett

Conjunction

yeat

  1. Obsolete form of yet.
    • 1586, William Warner, “The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], published 1602, →OCLC, page 173:
      Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more worth by howe much leſſe ſhe was vn-nicely clad.

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English yeate, from Old English ġeat.

Noun

yeat

  1. Alternative form of gaaute (“gate”)

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 80
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.