"yong" meaning in Middle English

See yong in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /junɡ/, /juːnɡ/, /jinɡ/, /jiːnɡ/ [East-Anglia, Northern, especially] (note: from Old English ġing)
Etymology: Inherited from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|ġeong|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English ġeong, {{inh+|enm|ang|ġeong}} Inherited from Old English ġeong, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*jung}} Proto-West Germanic *jung, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*jungaz}} Proto-Germanic *jungaz, {{inh|enm|ine-pro|*h₂yuHn̥ḱós}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|plural and weak singular|yonge|comparative|yongere||{{{comp2}}}|superlative|yongest||{{{sup2}}}|f3l=|f5l=|head=}} yong (plural and weak singular yonge, comparative yongere, superlative yongest), {{enm-adj|yonge|yongere|yongest}} yong (plural and weak singular yonge, comparative yongere, superlative yongest) Forms: yonge [plural], yonge [singular, weak], yongere [comparative], yongest [superlative], ȝeng [alternative], ȝing [alternative], ȝinge [alternative], ȝong [alternative], ȝonge [alternative], ȝoung [alternative], ȝung [alternative], ȝunge [alternative], ȝungge [alternative], ȝyng [alternative], ȝynge [alternative], ȝyonge [alternative], yenge [alternative], ying [alternative], yoing [alternative], yonge [alternative], young [alternative], younge [alternative], yung [alternative], yunge [alternative], ging [alternative, Early-Middle-English], ȝiung [alternative, Early-Middle-English], jung [alternative, Early-Middle-English], yyng [alternative, Ireland], ȝounge [alternative, Late-Middle-English], yeng [alternative, Late-Middle-English], yinge [alternative, Late-Middle-English], ynge [alternative, Late-Middle-English], yongge [alternative, Late-Middle-English], ȝeing [alternative, Northern], ȝhong [alternative, Northern], ȝohng [alternative, Northern], yhong [alternative, Northern], yhonge [alternative, Northern], yhung [alternative, Northern], yhyng [alternative, Northern], ȝhing [alternative], yhing [alternative], yhowng [alternative], ȝonke [alternative], ȝoyng [alternative]
  1. Early in growth or life; young.
    Characteristic of a young person; youthful.
    Sense id: en-yong-enm-adj-VR7kHXxA Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Age, Time Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 11 14 5 5 5 5 10 19 22 4 1 1 Disambiguation of Age: 50 50 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Time: 50 46 0 0 4 0
  2. Early in growth or life; young.
    Younger than another sharing a name; junior.
    Sense id: en-yong-enm-adj-9Sxu1pny Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Age, Time Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 11 14 5 5 5 5 10 19 22 4 1 1 Disambiguation of Age: 50 50 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Time: 50 46 0 0 4 0
  3. (figurative) Innocent; not guilty. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-yong-enm-adj-nHNL6k3D Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 11 14 5 5 5 5 10 19 22 4 1 1
  4. Inexperienced, unskilled; having little experience.
    Sense id: en-yong-enm-adj-7Z4vDjtX
  5. At an early stage of existence or development.
    Sense id: en-yong-enm-adj-6PAf9XZA
  6. (of meat) Tender, fresh.
    Sense id: en-yong-enm-adj-iEFvVLHd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: yong man, yong mone, yong sonne, yonghede, yongly, yongthe Related terms: yeman [possibly], youthe

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "yong man"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "yong sonne"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "yonghede"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "yongly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "yongthe"
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      "form": "yongest",
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    {
      "form": "ȝinge",
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    {
      "form": "ȝong",
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      ]
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    {
      "form": "ȝonge",
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        "alternative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ȝoung",
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        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝung",
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        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝunge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝungge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝynge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝyonge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yenge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ying",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yoing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yonge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "young",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "younge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yunge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ging",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝiung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ireland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝounge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yinge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ynge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yongge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝeing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝhong",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝohng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhong",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhonge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝhing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhowng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝonke",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝoyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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        "3": "plural and weak singular",
        "4": "yonge",
        "5": "comparative",
        "6": "yongere",
        "7": "",
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        "9": "superlative",
        "f3l": "",
        "f5l": "",
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  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "possibly"
      ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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        "Early in growth or life; young.",
        "Characteristic of a young person; youthful."
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          "young",
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          "young",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Early in growth or life; young.",
        "Younger than another sharing a name; junior."
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          "young",
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          "another",
          "another"
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          "name",
          "name"
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      "glosses": [
        "Innocent; not guilty."
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      "id": "en-yong-enm-adj-nHNL6k3D",
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          "guilty",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Innocent; not guilty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Inexperienced, unskilled; having little experience."
      ],
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          "Inexperienced",
          "inexperienced"
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          "unskilled",
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          "little",
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        "At an early stage of existence or development."
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          "existence",
          "existence"
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      "glosses": [
        "Tender, fresh."
      ],
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        ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of meat) Tender, fresh."
      ],
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        "of meat"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/junɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/juːnɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jinɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jiːnɡ/",
      "note": "from Old English ġing",
      "tags": [
        "East-Anglia",
        "Northern",
        "especially"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}
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    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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      "word": "yong mone"
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    {
      "form": "ȝinge",
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    {
      "form": "ȝong",
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    },
    {
      "form": "ȝonge",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "ȝung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝunge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝungge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝynge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝyonge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yenge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ying",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yoing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yonge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "young",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "younge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yunge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ging",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝiung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ireland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝounge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yeng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yinge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ynge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yongge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝeing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝhong",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝohng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhong",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhonge",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhung",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Northern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝhing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhing",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yhowng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝonke",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝoyng",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "10": "yongest",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{sup2}}}",
        "2": "adjective",
        "3": "plural and weak singular",
        "4": "yonge",
        "5": "comparative",
        "6": "yongere",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{comp2}}}",
        "9": "superlative",
        "f3l": "",
        "f5l": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "yong (plural and weak singular yonge, comparative yongere, superlative yongest)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yonge",
        "2": "yongere",
        "3": "yongest"
      },
      "expansion": "yong (plural and weak singular yonge, comparative yongere, superlative yongest)",
      "name": "enm-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "possibly"
      ],
      "word": "yeman"
    },
    {
      "word": "youthe"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Early in growth or life; young.",
        "Characteristic of a young person; youthful."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "youthful",
          "youthful"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Early in growth or life; young.",
        "Younger than another sharing a name; junior."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "growth",
          "growth"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "Younger",
          "younger"
        ],
        [
          "another",
          "another"
        ],
        [
          "sharing",
          "sharing"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "junior",
          "junior"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Innocent; not guilty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Innocent",
          "innocent"
        ],
        [
          "guilty",
          "guilty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Innocent; not guilty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Inexperienced, unskilled; having little experience."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Inexperienced",
          "inexperienced"
        ],
        [
          "unskilled",
          "unskilled"
        ],
        [
          "little",
          "little"
        ],
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "At an early stage of existence or development."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stage",
          "stage"
        ],
        [
          "existence",
          "existence"
        ],
        [
          "development",
          "development"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Tender, fresh."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Tender",
          "tender"
        ],
        [
          "fresh",
          "fresh"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of meat) Tender, fresh."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of meat"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/junɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/juːnɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jinɡ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jiːnɡ/",
      "note": "from Old English ġing",
      "tags": [
        "East-Anglia",
        "Northern",
        "especially"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yong"
}

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