abeigh
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Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from a- (“in a state or condition”) + Old Norse beigr, beygr (“fear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]abeigh
References
[edit]- “abeigh, adv.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abeigh”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.