different between yode vs yod

English

Etymology

From Middle English ?ode, ?ede, eode, from Old English ?ode, from Proto-Germanic *ijj-, a suppletive past tense form of Proto-Germanic *g?n? (“to go”). Cognate with Latin E?, ?re.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d

Verb

yode

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of go; went.

See also

• yead
• yede, yeed

Anagrams

• Deyo, Yedo

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j?d/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /j?d/, enPR: y?d
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

yod (plural yods)

1. Alternative form of yodh
2. (phonetics) A palatal approximant, /j/.
   • 1976, Michael L. Mazzola, Proto-Romance and Sicilian, Peter de Ridder Press, ?ISBN, page 104:

     A statement of consonantal changes for Sicilian is dependent on the development of two sets of clusters, consonant plus yod and consonant plus /l/.

   • 1984, Frederick B. Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics, volume 2, Georgetown University Press, ?ISBN, page 75:

     Wherever in the West (including northern Italia) the fricative allophone [x?] of coda /k/ before onsets /t/ and /s/ still remains…it now becomes semivocalized as yod, or more probably voiceless yod….

   • 2008, Philippe Ségéral & Tobias Scheer, "Positional Factors in Lenition and Fortition", in Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho et al. (eds.), Lenition and Fortition, Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 152:

     Word-initial yod, however, does not strengthen in either of the dialects considered, which respond to Polish jab?ko, jagoda, jelén, jutro (all [j-]) "apple, berry, deer, tomorrow" with unaltered initial yod.

Derived terms

• yod coalescence
• yodization
• yodless
• yod-dropping
• yod-dropper

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

yod

1. Pronunciation spelling of yard.

Anagrams

• doy

Italian

Noun

yod m (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of iod