awye
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English awey, from Old English aweġ, from earlier on weġ (“on one's way”). Cognates include English away and Scots awa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈwiː/
Adverb
awye
- away
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Awye wough it.
- Away with it.
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:
- Heve a dishen an trenshoorès awye, Shaneen;
- Heave the dishes and the trenchers away, little John;
- 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 108:
- A scalte croowe coome an taak aam awye,
- The scald-crow came and took them away,
- 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:
- Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.
- He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.
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 23
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