The story
- Old English · inherited fromġiestranǣfen“yesterday evening”
- Middle English · inherited fromyestreen
- English todayyestreen
From Middle English yestreen, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + e'en (“evening”). Cognate with West Frisian justerjûn (“yestreen; last night”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishġiestranǣfen all →
yestereveyestereven
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.