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Yern vs Wern - What's the difference?

yern | wern |

As verbs the difference between yern and wern

is that yern is while wern is (obsolete|transitive) to refuse.

yern

English

Verb

(en verb)
    • (Webster 1913)

    wern

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To refuse.
    • He is too great a niggard that will wern / A man to light a candle at his lantern. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)