yive
English
Etymology
From Middle English yiven, from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-. 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Gower to this entry?):
- To yive a man so litel thing / It were unworschipe in a king.
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