c. 1205. Lay., 8039. Her liggeð to-ȝere Ten þusend of his iferen.
c. 1290. St. Brendan, 240, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 226. Ȝoure ester ȝe schulle holde þer as ȝe dude to-ȝere.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Wife’s Prol., 168. Yet hadde I leuere wedde no wyf to yeere.
c. 1400. Gosp. Nicodemus, 966. Of Ioseph … þat ȝe presond to ȝere.
1483. Cath. Angl., 391/1. To ȝere, horno; hornus, hornotinus.
a. 1575. R. B., Appius & Virg., B j. Man, be mery to yeere.
1623. Webster, Duchess of Malfi, II. i. I have heard of none to year.
1727. Gay, Begg. Op., I. ii. Betty hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang.
1828. Craven Gloss., s.v. To, ‘We’ve a famous clip to year,’ that is, this year.
1882. Tennyson, Promise of May, I. Poems (1889), 781/2. I reckons they’ll hev’ a fine cider-crop to-year.
1886. T. Hardy, Mayor of Casterbr., I. 64. Not but what he’s been shook a little to-year about this.
