zunk

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan. Cognate with English sunk (“past of sink”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zʊŋk/

Verb

zunk

  1. sank
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, pages 88[1]:
      W' vengem too hard, he zunk ee commane,
      With venom too hard, he sunk his bat-club,
    • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, lines 12[2]:
      Yet spite o hays praachin a mugges thaaye zunk.
      Yet spite of his preaching they emptied the jugs.

References
  1. 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
  2. Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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