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yive

[jɪv]

yive verb: to give.

Verb

yive (third-person singular simple present yives, present participle yiving, simple past yave, past participle yiven)

  1. (West-Country, nonstandard, obsolete, transitive) To give.

Forms of yive

third-person singular presentyives
present participleyiving
pastyave
past participleyiven

Origin of yive

Inherited from Middle English yiven, from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-. Doublet of give, from Old Norse.

Questions about yive

What does yive mean?
Yive means to give.
What part of speech is yive?
Yive is a verb.
How do you pronounce yive?
Yive is pronounced [jɪv].
What is the past tense of yive?
The past tense of yive is yave.

Words near yive in the dictionary

  1. Yitu
  2. Yitzchak
  3. Yitzhak
  4. Yiu
  5. Yius
  6. yive
  7. yiven
  8. yives
  9. yiving
  10. YIVO
  11. Yiwu

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