Inherited fromMiddle Englishyiven, fromOld Englishġiefan, fromProto-West Germanic*geban, fromProto-Germanic*gebaną, fromProto-Indo-European*gʰebʰ-.Doublet ofgive, from Old Norse.
yive (third-person singular simple presentyives,present participleyiving,simple pastyave,past participleyiven)
- (transitive, nonstandard, West Country, obsolete) Togive.
yive
- alternative form ofyie
1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, inAPPENDIX:Fad didn't thou cum t' ouz phen w'ad zumthin toyive?- [Why didn't you come to us when we had something togive?]
- 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, published1867,page131
