yong

== English == === Adjective === yong (comparative yonger, superlative yongest) Obsolete spelling of young. 1608 (edition), Simon Patericke (translator), Innocent Gentillet (author), A DISCOVRSE VPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD PEACE, A KINGDOME, OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE, pages 238 and 250: caused the yong king […] knowing also many yong Romane gentlemen === See also === yong bell yong tau foo === Anagrams === -gony, gyno, gyno- == Chungli Ao == === Postposition === yong due to, because of ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === Clark, E. W. (1911), “YONG, ong, yonge, yongzi, yonga”, in Ao-Naga dictionary, Dimapur == Mandarin == === Romanization === yong nonstandard spelling of yōng nonstandard spelling of yóng nonstandard spelling of yǒng nonstandard spelling of yòng == Middle English == === Alternative forms === ȝeng, ȝing, ȝinge, ȝong, ȝonge, ȝoung, ȝung, ȝunge, ȝungge, ȝyng, ȝynge, ȝyonge, yenge, ying, yoing, yonge, young, younge, yung, yunge ging, ȝiung, jung (Early Middle English); yyng (Ireland); ȝounge, yeng, yinge, ynge, yongge (Late Middle English) ȝeing, ȝhong, ȝohng, yhong, yhonge, yhung, yhyng (Northern); ȝhing, yhing, yhowng (Early Scots) ȝonke, ȝoyng (Northwest Midland) === Etymology === Inherited from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /junɡ/, /juːnɡ/ IPA(key): /jinɡ/, /jiːnɡ/ (from Old English ġing, especially East Anglia or Northern) === Adjective === yong (plural and weak singular yonge, comparative yongere, superlative yongest) Early in growth or life; young. Antonym: old Characteristic of a young person; youthful. Younger than another sharing a name; junior. (figurative) Innocent; not guilty. Inexperienced, unskilled; having little experience. At an early stage of existence or development. (of meat) Tender, fresh. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== yeman (possibly) youthe ==== Descendants ==== English: young Middle Scots: ȝong, ȝoung Scots: young ==== References ==== “yong, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 June 2018. “ȝo(u)ng, ȝung, ȝing, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.