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Yead vs Yad - What's the difference?

yead | yad |

As nouns the difference between yead and yad

is that yead is (dialect) head while yad is (judaism) a pointer used in the ritual of torah-reading or yad can be the letter in the tifinagh alphabet.

yead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialect) head
  • *{{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Derbyshire people have a saying-- "Darbyshire born, and Darbyshire bred, Strong o' the yarm and weak o' the yead ." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, title=Peter's Mother, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Beer doan't agree wi' my inzide, an' it gits into my yead , and makes me proper jolly, zo the young volk make game on me. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1918, author=J. Arthur Gibbs, title=A Cotswold Village, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Put 'v' for 'f'; for 's' put 'z'; 'Th' and 't' we change to 'd,'-- So dry an' kip this in thine yead , An' thou wills't talk as plain as we." }}

    yad

    English

    (wikipedia yad)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Judaism) A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.

    • Etymology 2

    From the alphabet.

    Noun

  • The letter in the Tifinagh alphabet.

    • Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • yard

    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)