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To-ȝere, To-ȝeir, To-yer, adv. [ME and e.m.E. to-ȝere (Layamon), to yeere (Chaucer).] This year. — 1502 Halyb. xxi.
The best woll that I sauld to yer I couth not get xxj mark for it 1513 Doug. iv vii 18.
Quhidder gif for rewth he furth ȝet anys a teyr Or of hys lufe had piete? Na, not to ȝeir [Ruddim. to ȝere]
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