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rether

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Adverb

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rether

  1. Alternative form of rathere (more quickly, rather)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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rether

  1. Alternative form of rother (bovine)

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English rether, from Old English hraþor.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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rether

  1. rather

References

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  • 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 64