Talk:yerd

RFV discussion: May–June 2021
I suspect has not survived into modern English. The OED labels it as a hapax legomenon with only one use dating back to a. 1225. A search on Google Books did not reveal any such use, but only the following:


 * A variant of yard (in the senses of the unit of length, a plot of ground, or a rod).
 * A variant of earth.
 * A respelling of heard.

The current sense may have to be converted to a Middle English sense. — SGconlaw (talk) 16:42, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

I have added a number of cites to the citations page -- with old documents (which is where most of the occurrences are found), it can be difficult to locate the date of the document due to the limitations of Google's snippet view, and I have confined myself to documents where I know that they were written in Modern English. Kiwima (talk) 21:52, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks,, so nothing in modern English relating to the “to beat with a stick” sense, right? — SGconlaw (talk) 04:48, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Not that I found so far, but that does not mean it isn't out there. Someone else might find it. Kiwima (talk) 20:01, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * At this point I have found two cites for this meaning. Still looking.... Kiwima (talk) 01:08, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * wow, well done! If you can find a third modern use, it looks like the word will need to be labelled “dialectal”. — SGconlaw (talk) 05:11, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed. I only managed to find two citations in modern English, so I moved this definition to the Middle English section. Kiwima (talk) 01:03, 21 June 2021 (UTC)