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Etymology
From Middle English waiten.
Pronunciation
Verb
waaite
- to attend on
1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:Wee aar lhaung vlealès an pikkès, to waaite apan a breede.- With their long flails and picks, to wait upon the bride.
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 76