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形容詞

yong (comparative yonger, superlative yongest)

1. Obsolete spelling of young.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature H, verso:

     I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole,
     As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge,
     What I haue done being yong, or what would doe,
     Were I not old, […]

   • 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

別の表記

• 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)