yird

See also: Yird

Scots

Alternative forms

• yerd, yirth

Etymology

From Middle English yerd, from Old English ġeard, from Proto-West Germanic *gard, from Proto-Germanic *gardaz. Cognate with English yard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɪrd/

Noun

yird (uncountable)

1. earth, sod, soil, topsoil, mould, loam
2. ground

Verb

yird (third-person singular simple present yirds, present participle yirdin, simple past yirdit, past participle yirdit)

1. to bury, to inter

References

• “yird”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.