yede

English

Alternative forms

• yeed
• yode

Etymology

From Middle English ȝede, from Old English ēode.

Verb

yede

1. (obsolete) simple past of go, now replaced by went.

1. (obsolete or literary) To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 232:

     The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;

Anagrams

• eyed, yeed