poumgaam
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Etymology edit
From Middle English pewlynge (“crying plaintively”). The -l- was assimilated by final -m, -n.
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Noun edit
poumgaam
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 62