yed
yed verb: to speak; sing.
Verb (1)
yed (third-person singular simple present yeds, present participle yedding, simple past and past participle yedded)
Noun (1)
yed (plural yeds)
Verb (2)
yed (third-person singular simple present yeds, present participle yedding, simple past and past participle yedded)
- To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
- To be associated with a place or locality.
Noun (2)
yed (plural yeds)
Noun (3)
yed (plural yeds)
- A self-reference to the editor of a periodical; a substitution for the editor's name or signature.
- Fandom is a wonderful thing. We used to live in Florida ten years ago. Across the street lived a lad two years older than yed who had the most wonderful collection of comic books...all of a stf nature. At the ripe old age of eight yed was swept to Georgia and the lad with the comics was never heard...1950 December, Lee Hoffman, “Chaos”, in Quandry, number 5, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2015, page 3
- All of which sprang (crawled?) from the fertile skull of yed, no doubt it is something in my Radius.1952 February, Fred J. Robinson, “Arose By Any Other Name”, in Straight Up, volume 1, number 1, page 1
Forms of yed
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | yeds |
| present participle | yedding |
| past participle | yedded |
| past | yedded |
| alternative form | yedd |
| alternative form | yerd |
| alternative form | eard |
| Noun | |
| plural | yeds |
Origin of yed
From Middle English yedden, from Old English ġieddian (“to speak formally, discuss, speak with alliteration, recite, sing”), from ġiedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).
From Middle English yed, from Old English ġiedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).
From Middle English erthen (“to bury, dig”), from erthe (“earth”). Influenced or conflated with Middle English erden (“to dwell, inhabit”), from Old English eardian (“to live, dwell, be inhabitant, occupy”). More at earth.
Words formed from yed
Phrases with yed
Questions about yed
- What does yed mean?
- Yed means to speak; sing.
- What part of speech is yed?
- Yed can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of yed?
- The past tense of yed is yedded.
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