yestreen

noun

1. The night before; last night.

   archaic

   Late yestreen I saw the new moon, the old moon in her arms

Where it comes from

From Middle English yestreen, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + e'en (“evening”). Cognate with West Frisian justerjûn (“yestreen; last night”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry yestreen (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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