sparrowe
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English sparwe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparwō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sparrowe (plural sparroon)
- sparrow
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Sparrowe's Naesth.
- The Sparrow's Nest.
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 69