commaun

Yola

Alternative forms

• commawn, commane, comman

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish camán. By surface analysis, caam (“crooked”) +‎ -án (“Irish noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈmɔːn/

Noun

commaun (plural commanès)

1. hurly, batt

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 31