ee-spant

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːˈspant/

Verb

ee-spant

1. past participle of speen
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 11-12:

     unnere fose fatherlie zwae oure daiez be ee-spant,

     under whose paternal rule our days are spent;

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 114