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1916 April 13, Oswald Kendall, “The Romance of the Martin Connor”, in The Youth's Companion, volume 90, number 15, page 198, column 2:
"Thet one in the Formosa Channel was tremenjus. The velocity of the wind tetched a ’undred and forty mile,—so it was computed at Taipei,— arfter which it blew the wind gedge away. Yer need a string to yer ’at in a breeze like thet!"
^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jẹr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jẹr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 45:
Yer hele.
Your health (a toast).
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 6-7:
wi vengem o' core t'gie oure zense o' ye gradès whilke be ee-dighte wi yer name;
to pour forth from the strength of our hearts, our sense of the qualities which characterise your name,
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 2-4:
ye wake o'hopes ee-blighte, stampe na yer zwae be rare an lightzom.
the consequence of disappointed hopes, confirms your rule to be rare and enlightened.
References
Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 80