Yestermorn
/ˈjɛstərˌmɔːrn/noun
The morning of yesterday.
Did you know?Yestermorn belongs to a poetic family of time-words in which “yester-” preserves an ancient Germanic way of pointing backward toward the immediately preceding day.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*gistradagaz
“The day that has passed; yesterday”
Old English
Old English
ġeostran morgen
“Yesterday morning”
Middle English
Middle English
yister morwen
“Yesterday morning”
15th–16th Century
English
yestermorn
“The morning of the previous day”
Modern English
English
yestermorn
“A chiefly poetic or literary term for yesterday morning”