An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

YEDE, YEID, YHED, YHUDE, YOWDE, pret. v. Went. Yede is still used in Ang., gaid, S.
Barbour.

Norm. Sax. gede, A. S. geode, Moes. G. idd-ja, Isl. od, ibat.

YIEL, s. (Printed zeil.)
Bellenden.

Apparently the same with next word.

YIELD, s.
1. Recompence, or rather compensation.
Priests Peblis.
2. A subsidy.
Acts Ja. I.

A. S. geld, gild, a tax, tribute; from geld-an, gild-an, to pay.

YIELDINS, YEALINS, s. pl. Persons who are coeval, S.
V. [Eildins].

YEILL, s. "Age."
V. [Eild].
Douglas.

It may, however, be the same with yeil, q. return.

To YEISK, YESK, YISK, v. n.
1. To hiccup, S.
Douglas.
2. To belch; S. B. eesk.
Douglas.