dhree

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Yola

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Yola cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dhree

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English thre, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ. Cognates include English three and Scots three.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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dhree

  1. three
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, pages 23[1]:
      Ich at mee dhree meales.
      I ate my three meals.
    • 1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, pages 102[1]:
      Dhree brailès o' beanès, an a keow at was yole,
      Three barrels of beans, and a cow that was old,
    • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 1[2]:
      Haar wee bee dhree yola mydes,
      Here we are three old maids,

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 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
  2. ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland