yive

Inherited from Middle English yiven, from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-. Doublet of give, from Old Norse.

• IPA^(key): [jɪv]

yive (third-person singular simple present yives, present participle yiving, simple past yave, past participle yiven)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, West Country, obsolete) To give.

• yift

• Ivey, ivey

yive

1. alternative form of yie
   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:

     Fad didn't thou cum t' ouz phen w'ad zumthin to yive?

     [Why didn't you come to us when we had something to give?]

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 131