waal
Appearance
Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wal, wulle, well, from Old English wel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]waal
- well
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:
- A plaauge apan Portheare! Hea'de luther me waal,
- A plague upon Porter, he'd hide me well,
Derived terms
[edit]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 76