O.E.
geoguð "youth," related to
geong "young," from W.Gmc.
*jugunthiz, altered from P.Gmc.
*juwunthiz (cf. O.S.
juguth, O.Fris.
jogethe, M.Du.
joghet, Du.
jeugd, O.H.G.
jugund, Ger.
Jugend, Goth.
junda "youth;" see
young) by influence of its contrast,
*dugunthiz "ability" (source of O.E.
duguð). In M.E., the medial
-g- became a
yogh, which then disappeared.
Youthful first attested 1561.
"They said that age was truth, and that the young
Marred with wild hopes the peace of slavery"
[Shelley]
[yooth] 