yest

yest (plural yests)

1. Obsolete spelling of yeast.

• Tyes, Esty, stye, yets, yet's, tyes, stey, teys, etys

From Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

• yeste, ȝeest, ȝest, yeaste, gyst, gest, yeest

• IPA^(key): /jɛst/, /jɛːst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst, -ɛːst

yest (uncountable)

1. The broth or foam created by beer.

• English: yeast
• Scots: yest

• “yē̆st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 April 2018.

yest

1. alternative form of geste (“tale”)