thraame

Yola

Alternative forms

• thraume

Etymology

Cognate with English tram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾɔːm/

Noun

thraame (plural thraamès)

1. car
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;

     Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.

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 72