yean

American  

[yeen] / yin /

verb (used without object)

1. (of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.

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yean British  

/ jiːn /

verb

1. (of a sheep or goat) to give birth to (offspring)

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Usage

What else does yean mean? Yean was once a verb for when a sheep or goat gives birth to a lamb or kid. That sense of yean, first recorded around 1375–1425, is now obsolete.Today, yean is a pronunciation spelling—like wanna or finna—of the phrase you ain’t even in Black English, especially in the South. Yean heard about yean?!What are some other words related to yean?finnatrynaissaelisioncontractionreduction

Etymology

Origin of yean

1375–1425; late Middle English yenen, probably continuing Old English *geēanian to bring forth young, equivalent to ge- y- + ēanian to yean, akin to Latin agnus, Greek ámnos lamb