henteen
Yola edit
Etymology edit
hent (“to hold”) + -een (“ing”). Compare English holding (“tenure, farm”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
henteen
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 46