vew
English edit
Noun edit
vew (plural vews)
- Obsolete form of view.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Now leading him into a secret shade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heavens vew […]
Middle English edit
Noun edit
vew
- Alternative form of vewe
Yola edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English vewe, from Old English fēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *fau.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
vew
- few
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:
- Hi kinket an keilt, ee vewe aam 'twode snite.
- They kicked and rolled, the few that appeared.
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 75