aboute

See also: abouté

English

Adverb

aboute (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of about.

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

aboute

1. inflection of abouter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• ébouât, ébouta, taboue

Middle English

Alternative forms

• abute, abuten, abouten

Etymology

From Old English onbūtan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbuːt(ə)/, /aˈbuːtən/

Adverb

aboute

1. around
   • 1384, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe): Proverbs, vi, 3-4:

     Therfor, my sone, do thou that that Y seie, and delyuere thi silf; for thou hast fallun in to the hond of thi neiybore. Renne thou aboute, haste thou, reise thi freend;
     yyue thou not sleep to thin iyen, nether thin iyeliddis nappe.

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Descendants

• English: about
• Geordie English: aboot
• Scots: aboot
• Yola: abut, abouten

References

• “abǒute(n, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.