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Latin
Verb
vāller
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of vāllō
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English farrer (“great, much”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
valler
- more, longer in time.
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:Th' valler w'speen here, th' lass ee chourch-hey.- The more we spend here, the less in the churchyard.
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 74