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English
Noun
yarth (uncountable)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) earth
Anagrams
Yola
Etymology 1
From Middle English art, from Old English eart.
Pronunciation
Verb
yarth
- art, are
- Synonym: is
Derived terms
- yarthe (“art thou”)
- yarth (“you art”)
Etymology 2
ye (“you”) + yarth (“art”)
Pronunciation
Contraction
yarth
- you art
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 56:Blessed yarth amang meyen.- Blessed art thou amongst women.
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 79