"yiven" meaning in Middle English

See yiven in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈjivən/, /ˈjeːvən/
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- Proto-Germanic *gebaną Proto-West Germanic *geban Old English ġiefan Middle English yiven Inherited from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-. See also the doublet given. Etymology templates: {{etymon|enm|:inh|ang:ġiefan<id:to give>|id=to give|text=++|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- Proto-Germanic *gebaną Proto-West Germanic *geban Old English ġiefan Middle English yiven Inherited from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-. Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} yiven, {{enm-verb|yiveth|yivynge|yaf|yiven}} yiven (third-person singular simple present yiveth, present participle yivynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative yaf, past participle yiven) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-st|yiv|yaf|yev|yev|2a=yef|3a=yav|4a=yiv|4a2=yov|c=5|c2=4|y=0}} Forms: yiveth [present, singular, third-person], yivynge [participle, present], yaf [first-person, indicative, past, singular, third-person], yiven [participle, past], no-table-tags [table-tags], yiven [infinitive], to yiven [infinitive], yive [infinitive], yive [first-person, present, singular], yaf [first-person, past, singular], yef [first-person, past, singular], yivest [present, second-person, singular], yeve [past, second-person, singular], yave [past, second-person, singular], yiveth [present, singular, third-person], yaf [past, singular, third-person], yef [past, singular, third-person], yive [present, singular, subjunctive], yeve [past, singular, subjunctive], yave [past, singular, subjunctive], yive [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], yiven [plural, present], yive [plural, present], yeven [past, plural], yeve [past, plural], yaven [past, plural], yave [past, plural], yiveth [imperative, plural, present], yive [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], yivynge [participle, present], yivende [participle, present], yeven [participle, past], yeve [participle, past], yiven [participle, past], yive [participle, past], yoven [participle, past], yove [participle, past], ȝeven [alternative], ȝiven [alternative], yeven [alternative]
  1. to give Related terms: forȝiven

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "yive"
    },
    {
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      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "yeve"
    },
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      "word": "yie"
    },
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        "singular",
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    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present",
        "singular"
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular"
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      "form": "yeve",
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
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      "form": "yave",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "yef",
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      "tags": [
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        "singular",
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      ]
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      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yave",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
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        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "-",
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        "past",
        "singular"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "yeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
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      "form": "yaven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "form": "yave",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yivynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yivende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yeven",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past"
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      "form": "yeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      "form": "yiven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yoven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yove",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ȝeven",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ȝiven",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yeven",
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      ]
    }
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    }
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        "3a": "yav",
        "4": "yev",
        "4a": "yiv",
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        "c": "5",
        "c2": "4",
        "y": "0"
      },
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    }
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with etymology texts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        {
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          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              74,
              78
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              164,
              168
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          "ref": "c. 1386–1390, John Gower, “Book VII”, in Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume III, London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC, pages 156–157:",
          "text": "And than he laſſeth / And axeth but a litel peny, / If that the king wold yive him any. / The king anſwerd, it was to ſmall / For him, which was a lord reall, / To yive a man ſo litel thinge, / It were unworſhip in a kinge.",
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        ]
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          "word": "forȝiven"
        }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈjivən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈjeːvən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yiven"
}
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      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "yive"
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      "lang": "English",
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      "word": "yeve"
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      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-\nProto-Germanic *gebaną\nProto-West Germanic *geban\nOld English ġiefan\nMiddle English yiven\nInherited from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-.",
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      "form": "yiveth",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "yivynge",
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        "participle",
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "yiven",
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        "past"
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      ]
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      "form": "to yiven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
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      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "yaf",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "yivest",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "yave",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "yiveth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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      "form": "yaf",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yef",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yave",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yiven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "yeven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yaven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yave",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "yiveth",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yivynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yivende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yiven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yive",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yoven",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yove",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝeven",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝiven",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeven",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "head"
    },
    {
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        "1": "yiveth",
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        "4": "yiven"
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      "expansion": "yiven (third-person singular simple present yiveth, present participle yivynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative yaf, past participle yiven)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "yiv",
        "2": "yaf",
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        "3": "yev",
        "3a": "yav",
        "4": "yev",
        "4a": "yiv",
        "4a2": "yov",
        "c": "5",
        "c2": "4",
        "y": "0"
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "forȝiven"
    }
  ],
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          "ref": "c. 1386–1390, John Gower, “Book VII”, in Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume III, London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC, pages 156–157:",
          "text": "And than he laſſeth / And axeth but a litel peny, / If that the king wold yive him any. / The king anſwerd, it was to ſmall / For him, which was a lord reall, / To yive a man ſo litel thinge, / It were unworſhip in a kinge.",
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      "glosses": [
        "to give"
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          "give",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈjivən/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈjeːvən/"
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  "word": "yiven"
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