yield
English
/jiːld/
verb
Definitions
- (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- To give, or give forth, (anything).
- (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- (engineering) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English yielden inherited from Old English ġieldan (pay, sacrifice to, worship, render, serve, reward, yield, pay for, requite, punish) inherited from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (pay, compensate, yield, have give value, have value) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (pay, repay, pay for).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰeldʰ-
Gloss
pay, repay, pay for
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ayield English
- foryield English
- geld English
- geldable English
- gelded English
- gelder English
- gelding English
- heregeld English
- hidegild English
- misyield English
- nonyielding English
- outyield English
- overyielding English
- postyield English
- ungeld English
- unyielding English
- unyieldly English
- upyield English
- wergeld English
- woodgeld English
- yieldable English
- yieldance English
- yielder English
- yieldest English
- yieldeth English
- yielding English
- yieldingly English
- yieldingness English
- yieldless English
- yieldly English
- yieldy English
- entgelten German
- gelten German
- vergelten German
- gelden Dutch, Flemish
- geldig Dutch, Flemish
- ontgelden Dutch, Flemish
- vergelden Dutch, Flemish
- *gʰeldʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- gjelde Norwegian Bokmål
- gjelding Norwegian Bokmål
- *geldaną Proto-Germanic
- *geldą Proto-Germanic
- *gildiz Proto-Germanic
- *guldanaz Proto-Germanic
- forgieldan Old English
- geldan Old English
- gieldan Old English
- ġieldan Old English
- aȝelden Middle English
- foryelden Middle English
- geld Middle English
- yeldere Middle English
- yielden Middle English
- ȝeldinge Middle English
- gjalda Old Norse
- gengæld Danish
- gæld Danish
- gælde Danish
- undgælde Danish
- *želsti Proto-Slavic
- gjalda Icelandic
- xolda Galician
- gelden Middle Dutch
- geltan Old High German
- gjalda Faroese
- gjaldoyra Faroese
- gelt Middle High German
- gelten Middle High German
- gülte Middle High German
- געלט Yiddish
- טאַשנגעלט Yiddish
- *geldan gmw-pro
- *geldan Old Dutch
- *gilda Old Dutch
- *geldom Proto-Celtic
- ghèltan Cimbrian
- gèlt Cimbrian
- geldan Old Saxon
- gääll Westrobothnian
- gainyield Scots
- yield Scots
- jilde Western Frisian
- ielda Old Frisian
- jelda Old Frisian
- gellen Low German
- gèlt Mòcheno
- giald Old Danish
- gialdæ Old Danish