gimlie

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English chimeney, from Old French cheminee, from Late Latin camināta. Cognate with Scots chimlie. The voicing /t͡ʃ/ → /d͡ʒ/ was due to stress shift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪmˈliː/

Noun

gimlie

1. chimney

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 41