English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ə/
  • (file)
    • (US, deliberate) IPA(key): /oʊ/
  • Homophone: a
  • Rhymes: , -oʊ

Preposition edit

o’

  1. (unstressed) Contraction of of.
    Gimme two o’ those ones.
    from two o’clock until closing time
  2. (obsolete, unstressed) Contraction of on.

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Acehnese edit

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Noun edit

o'

  1. hair

Yola edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English of, from Old English of (of, from), an unstressed form of af, æf (from, off, away), from Proto-West Germanic *ab.

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Preposition edit

o'

  1. of
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 41:
      Come adh o' mee gazb.
      Come out of my breath.
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 53:
      Ty o' letch.
      A drink of small beer.
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 60:
      Outh o' harr; Out o' harr.
      Out of joint, off hinge.
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 73:
      Udh o' harr.
      Out of joint, off hinge.
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 76:
      Vull o' graace.
      Full of grace.
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Etymology 2 edit

Conjunction edit

o'

  1. Alternative form of ar (or)
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 45:
      O hardïshe o' anoor.
      One thing or another.

Etymology 3 edit

Adjective edit

o'

  1. Alternative form of o (one)
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 108:
      Shoo zent him o' die.
      She sent him one day.

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 60