ameing
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English eymynge, equivalent to aim + -een.
Verb[edit]
ameing
- aiming
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:
- At aar errone was var ameing 'ar 'ngish ee-height.
- That their errand was aiming to bring anguish upon them.
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 86