y-

y- [ē, i]

[ME y-, i- < OE ge-, perfective prefix (basic sense “together”): for IE base see COM-] [Archaic] prefix Archaic

forming, together with the appropriate inflectional change in the base, the past participle of verbs: its use, as a poetic archaism, survived until the end of the 16th cent. [yclept]