deoune

Yola

Alternative forms

• deowne

Etymology

From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːn/
• Homophone: doone

Adverb

deoune

1. down

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 34