Gerned vs Yerned - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between gerned and yerned

is that gerned is past tense of gern while yerned is past tense of yern.

(head)

(gern)

(en verb)

(obsolete) To grin.

(obsolete) To yawn.

* Spenser

[He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .

(Webster 1913) ----

(head)

(yern)

(en verb)

(Webster 1913)