waafur
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Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English *wafre, *wefre, from Old English wǣfre (“unsteady”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]waafur
References
[edit]- ^ Raymond Hickey (1988) “A lost Middle English dialect”, in Jacek Fisiak, editor, Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs; 37), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 250
- ^ 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 76