ˈyeender north. dial.
Forms: 7 earnder, eender, 7–9 yeender, 7, 9 yender; also 8–9 yeandurth.
[Representing OE. ǽr undern ‘mane’ (ælfric Lev. vi. 20) = OFris. êr unden in the forenoon, NFris. (Sylt) îrönner, îrner forenoon, MDu. eeronderen (broot) 12 o'clock meal (cf. early Flem. eronderen ‘meridiari’, Kilian): see ere prep. and undern.]
The forenoon.
| 12.. Ancrene Wisse in J. Hall Early M.E. (1920) 74 Cumeð to ham to þe þurl earunder & ouerunder eanes oðer twien. c 1663 Kynder Hist. Darby, §7 But these and y⊇ Moorelanders add three more [meales], y⊇ bitt in the morning, y⊇ Anders-meate, and yenders meate, and soe make up seaven. 1674 Ray N.C. Words 55 The Yeender or Eender, the Forenoon, Derbysh. 1684 G. M[eriton] Yorkshire Dial. 195 (E.D.S.) It comes ith Earnder, Wife, or else by Neaun. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), The Yeender or Earnder, the forenoon. Hallifax, in Yorkshire. c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. (1770) 25 Sed I, I'r there last Oandurth, on he'd leet o oneth' Yeandurth ofore. 1855 J. Davies Races Lanc. in Trans. Philol. Soc. 236 The equivalent of the Lanc. ‘oandurth’ [afternoon] and ‘yeandurth’, forenoon. |