north. dial. Forms: 7 earnder, eender, 7–9 yeender, 7, 9 yender; also 8–9 yeandurth. [Representing OE. ǽr undern ‘mane’ (Ælfric, Lev. vi. 20) = OFris. êr unden in the forenoon, NFris. (Sylt) îrönner, îrner forenoon, MDu. eeronderen (broot) 12 o’clock meal (cf. early Flem. eronderen ‘meridiari,’ Kilian): see ERE prep. and UNDERN.] The forenoon.

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c. 1663.  Kynder, Hist. Darby., § 7. Your Peasant exceedes ye Greeke, who as Athenæus sayes have fowre meales a day,… that is breakefast, dinner, supper, and a collation after supper. But these and ye Moorelanders add three more, ye bitt in the morning, ye Anders-meate, and yenders meate, and soe make up seaven.

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1674.  Ray, N. C. Words, 55. The Yeender or Eender, the Forenoon, Derbysh.

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1684.  G. M[eriton], Yorkshire Dial., 195. (E.D.S.). It comes ith Earnder, Wife, or else by Neaun.

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1703.  Thoresby, Lett. to Ray (E.D.S.). The Yeender or Earnder, the forenoon. Hallifax, in Yorkshire.

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c. 1746.  J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lanc. Dial. (1770), 25. Sed I, I’r there last Oandurth, on he’d leet o oneth’ Yeandurth ofore.

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1855.  J. Davies, Races Lanc., in Trans. Philol. Soc., 236. The equivalent of the Lanc. ‘oandurth’ [afternoon] and ‘yeandurth,’ forenoon.

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