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See also: Londe
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English land.
Noun
[edit]londe (plural londes)
- Alternative form of lond
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 13-14.
- And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;- And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
To distant shrines well known in distant lands.
- And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 13-14.
Etymology 2
[edit]From lond (noun).
Verb
[edit]londe
- Alternative form of londen
Yola
[edit]Noun
[edit]londe
- Alternative form of lhoan
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:
- az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.
- for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 18-19:
- Wee dwyth ye ane fose dais be gien var ee gudevare o'ye londe ye zwae,
- We behold in you one whose days are devoted to the welfare of the land you govern,
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 1-2:
- Ye state na dicke daie o'ye londe, na whilke be nar fash nar moile, albiet 'constitutional agitation,'
- The condition, this day, of the country, in which is neither tumult nor disorder, but that constitutional agitation,
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 114