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English
Adverb
aboute (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of about.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
aboute
- inflection of abouter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English onbūtan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈbuːt(ə)/, /aˈbuːtən/
Adverb
aboute
- around
1384, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe): Proverbs, vi, 3-4:Therfor, my sone, do thou that that Y seie, and delyuere thi silf; for thou hast fallun in to the hond of thi neiybore. Renne thou aboute, haste thou, reise thi freend;
yyue thou not sleep to thin iyen, nether thin iyeliddis nappe.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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