different between yore vs yote

English

Etymology

From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ?ore, ?are, ?eare, from Old English ?e?ra (literally “of years”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *j?r??, the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *j?r? (“year”). More at year.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yô, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /j??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: y?r, IPA^(key): /jo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /jo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: your, you're (accents with the pour–poor merger); yaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

yore (uncountable)

1. (poetic) a time long past.

Usage notes

A fossil; virtually unused outside the phrase of yore, especially the idiom days of yore.

Synonyms

• foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

Adverb

yore (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.

Synonyms

• long since, of old; see also Thesaurus:long ago

Anagrams

• Roye, oyer, yero

Middle English

Adverb

yore

1. yore (in a time long ago)
2. (with past participle) for a long time
   • c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Dictionary of English Verse, 1900):

     Ichabbe y-yerned yore.

References

• “y?re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ??otan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutan? (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (“to pour”), West Frisian jitte (“to pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

yote (third-person singular simple present yotes, present participle yoting, simple past and past participle yoted)

1. (Britain dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
2. (archaic or dialectal) To steep.

   My fowls, which well enough / I, as before, found feeding at their trough / Their yoted wheat. — Chapman.

Related terms

• ingot

Etymology 2

From coyote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/, /?j??ti/
• Rhymes: -??t, -??ti

Noun

yote (plural yotes)

1. Abbreviation of coyote.

Anagrams

• Toye, eyot, toey

Swahili

Adjective

yote

1. Mi class inflected form of -ote.
2. Ma class inflected form of -ote.
3. N class inflected form of -ote (singular only).