Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English sparwe, from Old English spearwa, from Proto-West Germanic *sparwō.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sparrowe (plural sparroon)

  1. 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