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Etymology
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *knāan. Quotation should be analyzed as knou /nuː/ + Irish th /h/ + em /ɛm/. This misspelling shows that these Yola speakers were often acquainted with Irish.
Pronunciation
Verb
knouth (third-person singular simple present nouth, simple past knew)
- to know
- Synonym: 'ote
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Ich knouth em.- I know him.
- knoweth
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 51