abeigh
Scots
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editProbably from a- (“in a state or condition”) + Old Norse beigr, beygr (“fear”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editabeigh
References
edit- “abeigh, adv.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abeigh”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.