Jaane

Yola

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɔːn/
  • Homophone: Jone

Proper noun

Jaane

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Joan
    Coordinate term: Jone (“John”)
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
      Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?
      Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?

References
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90
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