awye

Yola

Alternative forms

• away, awaa, awi

Etymology

From Middle English awey, from Old English aweġ, from earlier on weġ (“on one's way”). Cognates include English away and Scots awa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈwiː/

Adverb

awye

1. away
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Awye wough it.

     Away with it.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:

     Heve a dishen an trenshoorès awye, Shaneen;

     Heave the dishes and the trenchers away, little John;

   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 108:

     A scalte croowe coome an taak aam awye,

     The scald-crow came and took them away,

   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:

     Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.

     He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.

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 23