knouth
Yola edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *knāan. Quotation should be analyzed as knou /nuː/ + Irish th /h/ + em /iːm/. This misspelling shows that these Yola speakers were often acquainted with Irish.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
knouth (third-person singular simple present nouth, simple past knew)
- to know
- Synonym: 'ote
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Ich knouth em.
- I know him.
- knoweth
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References edit
- 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 51