Obs. Forms: 1 ʓiecða, ʓicða, ʓihða, ʓyhða, 3 ȝecðe, ȝeohðe, 5 ȝykthe, yeketh, ȝeght, ȝight. [OE. ʓiecða = OHG. jukido (MHG. jukede):— OTeut. *jukiþon-, f. juk-: see ITCH v.1 (The suffix occurs in other names of physical disorders, as clęweþa itch, spéowþa vomit.)] Itching, itch.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xi. 70. Se ʓicða [Hatt. ʓiecða] bið swiðe unsar, & se cleweða bið swiðe row.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 252. Þes læcedom deah ʓe wiþ hriefðo & ʓicþan.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 86. Unaberendlic ʓyhða ofereode ealne ðone lichaman.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 9. Þat bearninde ȝecðe [v.r. ȝeohðe] of þat licomliche lust.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 538/2. Ȝykynge, or ȝykth’e [1499, P. ȝekyn or yeketh], pruritus.
14[?]. Medulla Gram. (Rawl. MS.). Prurigo, a scabbe a ȝeght.
14[?]. Medulla (Cant. Cath. MS.). Pruritus, ȝight.
