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Irish
Verb
dhing
- past analytic of ding
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Etymology
From Middle English thing, from Old English þing (“thing”), from Proto-West Germanic *þing.
Pronunciation
Noun
dhing
- thing
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:Ar aany noor dhing at woode comfoort mee,- Or any other thing that would comfort me,
1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;- Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.
Derived terms
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 34