different between yea vs yed

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ye, ?ea, ya, ?a, from Old English ??a, i? (“yea, yes”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *y? (“already”). Cognate with Scots yea, ya (“yes, yea, indeed, so”), Saterland Frisian ja, jee (“yes”), West Frisian ja (“yes”), Dutch ja (“yes”), German ja (“yes, yea”), Swedish ja, jo (“yes, well, indeed”), Icelandic já (“yes”), Latin iam (“now, already”), Italian già (“now, already”), Spanish ya (“now, already”), Polish ju? (“already”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: yay

Adverb

yea (not comparable)

1. (dated) Yes, indeed.
   • 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

2. Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture).

   The pony was yea high.

Synonyms

• (yes): aye, yep, yes, yup, yeah, yigh (when contradicting)

Antonyms

• nay
• no

Conjunction

yea

1. (archaic) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
   • • (with modern spelling) [N]ow such a life ungodly, without a care of doing the will of the Lord (though they profess him in their mouths, yea though they believe and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea have knowledge of the Scriptures) yet if they live ungodly, they deny God, and therefore shall be denied
   • c. 1633, The Flea, by John Donne

     O stay, three lives in one flea spare,

     Where we almost, yea, more than married are.

Interjection

yea

1. (in some dialects of American English, including Southern, Western, and African American Vernacular) Yeah, right, yes.

Noun

yea (plural yeas)

1. An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken

   Antonym: nay

Etymology 2

From yeah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?(?)/, /?jæ.?/
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

yea

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of yeah

Etymology 3

See yay.

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/

Interjection

yea

1. Misspelling of yay.

Anagrams

• Aye, aye, yae

English

Alternative forms

• yedd

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?edden, ?eddien, from Old English ?ieddian (“to speak formally, discuss, speak with alliteration, recite, sing”), from ?iedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

Verb

yed (third-person singular simple present yeds, present participle yedding, simple past and past participle yedded)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To speak; sing.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To contend; wrangle.

Derived terms

• yedding

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?ed, from Old English ?iedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

Noun

yed (plural yeds)

1. (archaic) A saying.
2. (Britain dialectal) A falsehood; leasing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English eorþien (“to bury, dig”), from eorþe (“earth”). Influenced or conflated with Middle English eardien (“to dwell, inhabit”), from Old English eardian (“to live, dwell, be inhabitant, occupy”). More at earth.

Alternative forms

• yerd, eard

Verb

yed (third-person singular simple present yeds, present participle yedding, simple past and past participle yedded)

1. (Britain dialectal) To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
2. (Britain dialectal) To be associated with a place or locality. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• yedder
• yedding

Noun

yed (plural yeds)

1. (Britain dialectal) A burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground.

Etymology 4

Blend of your +? editor

Noun

yed (plural yeds)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A self-reference to the editor of a periodical; a substitution for the editor's name or signature.

Anagrams

• Dey, Dye, d'ye, dey, dye

Volapük

Conjunction

yed

1. (Volapük Rigik) yet, nevertheless, but, however