Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English dernen, dærnen, from Old English dyrnan, diernan (to keep secret, conceal, hide, restrain, repress, hide oneself), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (to conceal), from *darnī (hidden, secret).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dearnt

  1. hided
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
      Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.
      Our eyes would be dazzled to look up to the sky.

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  • 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 33