bidaades
Appearance
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English potato, from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata. Cognate with Scots bitatoe.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bidaades
- potatoes
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 93:
- Aar was bidaades an heereen.
- There were potatoes and herrings;
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 26