An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_Barbour._
Norm. Sax. _gede_, A. S. _geode_, Moes. G. _idd-ja_, Isl. _od_, ibat.
YIEL, _s._ (Printed _zeil_.)
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
Apparently the same with next word.
YIELD, _s._
1. Recompence, or rather compensation.
_Priests Peblis._
2. A subsidy.
_Acts Ja. I._
A. S. _geld_, _gild_, a tax, tribute; from _geld-an_, _gild-an_, to pay.
YIELDINS, YEALINS, _s. pl._ Persons who are coeval, S.
V. ~Eildins~.
YEILL, _s._ "Age."
V. ~Eild~.
_Douglas._
It may, however, be the same with _yeil_, q. return.
_To_ YEISK, YESK, YISK, _v. n._
1. To hiccup, S.
_Douglas._
2. To belch; S. B. _eesk_.
_Douglas._
A. S. _geocsa_, singultus; Germ. _gax-en_, _gix-en_, singultire.
~Yeisk~, ~Yesk~, _s._ A single affection of hiccup, S. _eesk_, S. B.
YELD, YEALD, YELL, EILD, _adj._
1. Barren, S.; _yell_, _eill_, Border. A. Bor. _yell_.
_Montgomerie._
2. A cow, although with calf, is said to _gang yeld_, when her milk dries up, S. B.
_A yeld nurse_, a dry nurse.
_Stat. Acc._
3. Denoting cattle or sheep that are too young to bear, Dumfr.
4. Applied metaph. to broth without meat.
_Kelly._
Isl. _gelld_, _gall_, infaecundus, effaetus; Dan. _gald_, Su. G.
_gall_, id. _galko_, vacca sterilis.
YELDRING, YELDRIN, _s._ A yellow-hammer, S. tautologically _yellow-yeldrin_, also _yellow-yite_.
_Sibbald._
A. S. _geole_, yellow, and _ring_; perh. from the yellow _ring_, which at least partly adorns the neck of this bird.
_To_ YELL, _v. n._ To roll, a term applied to a s.h.i.+p. _Yawl_, E.
_Mellvill's MS._
YELLY, YEALTOU, used as an _interj._ expressive of surprise, S. B.
_Yelly_, yea will ye? _yealtou_, yea wilt thou?
_s.h.i.+rrefs._
_To_ YELLOCH, _v. n._ To scream, to shriek, S. B. Fife.
_Gl. s.h.i.+rr._
~Yelloch~, ~Yellough~, _s._ A yell, S.
