yell

Etymology 1

From Middle English ȝellen, yellen, from Old English ġiellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
2. (transitive) To convey by shouting.
   He yelled directions to the party from the car.
3. (informal, followed by at) To tell someone off in a loud and angry manner.
   If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.

noun

1. A shout.
2. A phrase to be shouted.
   After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings[…] 1912, The Michigan Alumnus, volume 18, page 152

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

adj

1. (Ulster) dry (of cow)