Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to yerd
Participle: yerded
Gerund: yerding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | yerd |
| you | yerd |
| he;she;it | yerds |
| we | yerd |
| you | yerd |
| they | yerd |
Perfect
| I | have yerded |
| you | have yerded |
| he;she;it | has yerded |
| we | have yerded |
| you | have yerded |
| they | have yerded |
Past
| I | yerded |
| you | yerded |
| he;she;it | yerded |
| we | yerded |
| you | yerded |
| they | yerded |
Pluperfect
| I | had yerded |
| you | had yerded |
| he;she;it | had yerded |
| we | had yerded |
| you | had yerded |
| they | had yerded |
Future
| I | will yerd |
| you | will yerd |
| he;she;it | will yerd |
| we | will yerd |
| you | will yerd |
| they | will yerd |
Future Perfect
| I | will have yerded |
| you | will have yerded |
| he;she;it | will have yerded |
| we | will have yerded |
| you | will have yerded |
| they | will have yerded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | yerd |
| you | yerd |
| he;she;it | yerd |
| we | yerd |
| you | yerd |
| they | yerd |
Perfect
| I | have yerded |
| you | have yerded |
| he;she;it | have yerded |
| we | have yerded |
| you | have yerded |
| they | have yerded |
Imperfect
| I | yerded |
| you | yerded |
| he;she;it | yerded |
| we | yerded |
| you | yerded |
| they | yerded |
Pluperfect
| I | had yerded |
| you | had yerded |
| he;she;it | had yerded |
| we | had yerded |
| you | had yerded |
| they | had yerded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would yerd |
| you | would yerd |
| he;she;it | would yerd |
| we | would yerd |
| you | would yerd |
| they | would yerd |
Perfect
| I | would have yerded |
| you | would have yerded |
| he;she;it | would have yerded |
| we | would have yerded |
| you | would have yerded |
| they | would have yerded |
Imperative
| you | yerd |
| we | Let's yerd |
| you | yerd |
Verbs conjugated like 'yerd'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'yerd'
herd,
yard,
yead,
yed,
yend,
yerk,
yern,
3rd,
bard,
bead,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos
5. Proto-Germanic *gardaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *gard
7. Old English ġeard
8. Middle English yerd
9. English yerd
10. Inherited from Middle English yerd (“yard”).
Sample Sentences
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To owd Tim's grave this neet aw bin, An' yerd him in't mysel. [1854, Elijah Ridings, The Village Muse, Containing the Complete Poetical Works of E. Ridings, page 419:]
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and when she dies, I'm to pay for the yerding of her honestly, and a' the o'ercome is to be my ain; and by that time I'll be as rich es e'er my father was before me. [1877, John Cheap the Chapman's Library, page 7:]
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Forbes took him at the kirk of Forbes and struck off his head and caused yerd him behind the kirk, and sett his grave about with tippet stones, where it remains as yet ( 1580 ) to testifie the same. [1923, George Forrest Browne, Echt-Forbes Family Charters 1345-1727, page 50:]
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Spalding recounts the incident: Alexander Gordon of Dunkyntie and George Gordon his eldest son, with some servants,being at the hunts in Glenelg o at the head of Strathaven, were upon the 19th August cruelly murdered by certain highland limmars, likeas the laird and his son in their defence slew three of thir lowns, but craftily they presently yerded two of them in a hole, and the third they left lying above the ground, [1960, Victor Gaffney, The Lordship of Strathavon: Tomintoul Under the Gordons, page 63:]
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At Baguley that burn his biding-place he had; His ancestors of old time have yerded there long, Before William Conqueror this country inhabited. [1991, Emrys Jones, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, page 73:]