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yede |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yode \Yode\, obs. imp. of Go [OE. yode, yede, [yogh]ede, [yogh]eode, eode, AS e['o]de, used as the imp. of g[=a]n to go akin to Goth. iddja I, he went L. ire to go Gr 'ie`nai, Skr. i, y[=a]. [root]4. Cf {Issue}.] Went walked; proceeded. [Written also {yede}.] See {Yede}. Quer [whether] they rade [rode] or yode. --Cursor Mundi. Then into Cornhill anon I yode. --Lydgate. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Yede \Yede\, obs. imp. Went See {Yode}. All as he bade fulfilled was indeed This ilke servant anon right out yede. --Chaucer. Note: Spenser and some later writers mistook this for a present of the defective imperfect yode. It is however, only a variant of yode. See {Yode}, and cf {Yead}. [He] on foot was forced for to yeed. --Spenser
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