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† yetev.Origin: Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps formed within English, by back-formation. Etymons: eat v.; English ȝeȝeten, iȝeten. Etymology: Probably either (i) a variant of eat v., with palatal on-glide (compare e.g. β. forms at earth n.1), or (ii) a back-formation < early Middle English ȝeȝeten, iȝeten, etc., prefixed past participle forms of eat v. (compare Old English ge-eten and i-yeten adj.), which show development of a palatal semivowel in hiatus after y- prefix.Alternatively, the word could be the reflex of prefixed Old English ge-etan (cognate with or similarly formed to Middle Dutch ge-eten , Old High German gi-ezzan (Middle High German gezzen ) < the Germanic base of y- prefix + the Germanic base of eat v.), but this seems less likely, as the prefixed verb is considerably less common than the unprefixed verb in Old English, although it survives into early Middle English in a text of Old English composition (compare variant reading in quot. OE2):OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xii. 29 Et uos nolite quaerere quid manducetis aut quid bibatis : & gie nællað gesoeca huæd gie geete uel huæd gie gedringe.OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) i. 181 Ne hrepa þu þæs treowes wæstm, for ðon þe ðu byst deadlic gif þu ðæs treowes wæstm geętst [a1225 Vesp. A.xxii ȝeetst].OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) iii. 6 Ðæt wif..genam ða of ðæs treowes wæstme & geæt & sealde hyre were. Obsolete. the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > [adjective] > eaten a1400 (c1250) (Egerton) (1966) l. 392 Alle þey dronken and al þey ȝete. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) l. 7116 (MED) His wyues fadir..Of þis hony to ȝete ȝaf he. c1475 (Rawl.) (1999) 304 (MED) He yet when that euer he had hunger. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara (1537) f. 12 It is .ii. days syth I yete any thynge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020). <  v.a1400 |