yold

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoʊld/

From Middle English yold (“yielded”), from Old English ġeald (“yielded”), 1st and 3rd person preterite of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).

yold

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of yield.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The soring clouds into sad showres ymolt;
     So to her yold the flames, and did their force revolt

From Middle English yolde, yolden (“yielded”), from Old English ġegolden (“yielded”), past participle of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”).

• yolden

yold

1. (obsolete) past participle of yield
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     to yield him loue she doth deny,
     Once to me yold, not to be yold againe […]

• Loyd, YLOD, odyl, oldy

From Middle English olde, from Old English ald, from Proto-West Germanic *ald.

yold

1. Alternative form of yole
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Yold mawn.

     Old woman.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 56