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foryield

foryield verb: to pay back; recompense.

Verb

foryield (third-person singular simple present foryields, present participle foryielding, simple past and past participle foryielded)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) to pay back; recompense.
  2. (obsolete) to yield up; pay; reward; requite.

Forms of foryield

third-person singular presentforyields
present participleforyielding
past participleforyielded
pastforyielded

Origin of foryield

From Middle English foryelden (“to requite, yield up”), from Old English forġieldan (“to pay for, reward, give up, forfeit”), from Proto-West Germanic *frageldan, from Proto-Germanic *frageldaną, equivalent to for- + yield. Cognate with Scots foryeild (“to repay; recompense”), Saterland Frisian ferjäilde, West Frisian ferjilde, Dutch vergelden (“to reward, pay back”), German vergelten (“to repay, reward”).

Words formed from foryield

Questions about foryield

What does foryield mean?
Foryield means to pay back; recompense.
What part of speech is foryield?
Foryield is a verb.
What is the past tense of foryield?
The past tense of foryield is foryielded.

Words near foryield in the dictionary

  1. forwounding
  2. forwounds
  3. forwrap
  4. forwrought
  5. Foryd
  6. foryield
  7. foryielded
  8. foryielding
  9. foryields
  10. forzandi
  11. forzando

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