yelk

• IPA^(key): /jɛlk/
• Rhymes: -ɛlk

yelk (plural yelks)

1. Obsolete form of yolk.
   • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 62:

     Eggs roasted hard, and the yelke taken out and salt putt in its stead.

• Some 19th-century authorities regarded this as the correct spelling.
  • 1828, Noah Webster, “yelk”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language:

    It is sometimes written and pronounced yolk, but yelk is the proper word. Yolk is a corruption.

• Kyle, Lyke, kyle, lyke