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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English wā lā wā, weg-lā-weg, wei-lā-wei, wī-lā-wei.[1]
Pronunciation
Interjection
weylawey
- A general interjection expressing distress, regret, or sorrow: alack, alas, lackaday.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English), ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio xv, recto, column 2:
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