mistern
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English misten, from Old English mistian. Cognate with English misting. The correct spelling should be *misteen.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mistern
- Being covered by tears.
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
- Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.
- Our eyes would be
dazzledto look up to the sky.
- Our eyes would be
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 57