Etymology

yede

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Today it means: To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators). Full definition →

Middle English yede ← Old English ēode
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  1. Old English · inherited fromēode
  2. Middle English · inherited fromyede
  3. English todayyede

From Middle English yede, from Old English ēode.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.