yeld

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English

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Adjective

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yeld (not comparable)

  1. barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
    • 1985, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Official Report, 5th Series, page 227:
      With regard to the yeld ewes, untupped, may I ask the Minister what this means?

Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English yeld, from Old English ġelde (barren, unproductive), probably borrowed from Old Norse geldr (barren, yielding no milk), from Proto-Germanic *galdaz, *galdijaz (barren, unfruitful), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (to shout, cry). Related to Swedish gall (barren), German galt, gelt (yielding no milk, unfruitful), Old Norse gelda (to castrate).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [jɛl(d)], [(j)il(d)]

Adjective

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yeld (comparative mair yeld, superlative maist yeld)

  1. barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
  2. not fertile, unproductive, ineffectual, lacking in substance or value, unprofitable (of inanimate things)

Descendants

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  • English: yell

Noun

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yeld (plural yelds)

  1. barren ewe or cow, etc.

Verb

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yeld (third-person singular simple present yelds, present participle yeldin, simple past yeldt, past participle yeldt)

  1. to cease to milk a pregnant cow when the flow stops before calving