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Middle English
Noun
pley
- Alternative form of ple
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English pleye, from Old English plega, from Proto-West Germanic *plegō.
Pronunciation
Noun
pley
- play
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:Th' heiftem o' pley vell all ing to lug;- The weight of the play fell into the hollow;
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 86