vursth
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English furst, first, frist, from Old English fyrest.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vuːst/, /viːst/, /vɾɪst/
Adjective
vursth
- first
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 78:
- Wich ad wough bethther kwingokee or baagchoosee vursth?
- Whether had we better churn or bake first?
- 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 108:
- A vursth stroke hea strooke
- The first stroke he struck
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 76
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