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ˈyeender north. dial.
Forms: 7 earnder, eender, 7–9 yeender, 7, 9 yender; also 8–9 yeandurth.
[Representing OE. ǽr undern ‘mane’ (ælfric Lev. vi. 20) = OFris. êr unden in the forenoon, NFris. (Sylt) îrönner, îrner forenoon, MDu. eeronderen (broot) 12 o'clock meal (cf. early Flem. eronderen ‘meridiari’, Kilian): see ere prep. and undern.]
The forenoon.
12..Ancrene Wisse in J. Hall Early M.E. (1920) 74 Cumeð to ham to þe þurl earunder & ouerunder eanes oðer twien. c1663Kynder Hist. Darby, §7 But these and y⊇ Moorelanders add three more [meales], y⊇ bitt in the morning, y⊇ Anders-meate, and yenders meate, and soe make up seaven. 1674Ray N.C. Words 55 The Yeender or Eender, the Forenoon, Derbysh. 1684G. M[eriton] Yorkshire Dial. 195 (E.D.S.) It comes ith Earnder, Wife, or else by Neaun. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), The Yeender or Earnder, the forenoon. Hallifax, in Yorkshire. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. (1770) 25 Sed I, I'r there last Oandurth, on he'd leet o oneth' Yeandurth ofore. 1855J. Davies Races Lanc. in Trans. Philol. Soc. 236 The equivalent of the Lanc. ‘oandurth’ [afternoon] and ‘yeandurth’, forenoon. |