awye

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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

Adverb

awye

  1. 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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