keillès

Yola

Alternative forms

• keilès

Etymology

Cognate with English skittles, with unexpected loss of initial s-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪɫz/

Noun

keillès

1. skittles, ninepins

Related terms

• keillet

References

• 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 49