Billeen
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Yola[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Billeen [1]
- a male given name, equivalent to English Billy
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 1[2]:
- Billeen Scalaane an hys yola moan,
- Billy Scallan and his old woman,
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 5[2]:
- "Faad thay goul ez upa thee, thou stouk" co Billeen,
- "What the divil is on you, you fool?" quoth Billy;
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 9[2]:
- Co Sooney, "Billeen dowst thee zee faads lewer,
- Says Alice "Billy, do you see what's yonder?"
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, lines 12[2]:
- 'Tus a gearded ee freightened Billeen's yola caule.
- 'Twas a goat that frightened Billy's old caule (horse).
References[edit]
- ^ 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 26
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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