wabsteid

Scots

Etymology

wab (“web”) +‎ steid (“place, location”); editors of the Dictionaries of the Scots Language put the first recorded usage in 2001, but examples exist as early as 1996.

Noun

wabsteid (plural wabsteids)

1. website
   • 1996 August 19, The Nit Nurse, “Scots language web site makes the papers”, in scot.scots‎^[2] (Usenet):

     SCOT IN THE WEB: A chap at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and technology […] has set up the Scots language's first web site or 'wabsteid' dedicated "ti the furtherin o the Scots leid".

   • 2001 May 5, “Ulster-Scots on the web”, in Belfast News Letter, page 22:

     The'r a haill new wabsteid haes been writ frae an American as gies aa the wittins ye wid be wantin anent Scotch taak in Ulster (an aiblins a bittie ye widna!)

     There's a whole new website that has been written by an American, containing all the information you would want [about Ulster Scots] (and some you maybe wouldn't!)

   • 2003 November 26, Fiona MacGregor, “Website for schools last word in Scots”, in Edinburgh Evening News, page 18:

     A SCOTS language website for schoolchildren is being launched in the city. Scuil Wab, described as "a wabsteid for bairns o aa ages", is aimed at encouraging primary and secondary pupils to use the Scots language.

   • 2008 March 7, “A Muckle Buik is the biggest - The Diary By Alba”, in The Scotsman, page 11:

     Not so, said Dumfries poet Rab Wilson, who pens odes in Scots. "Whit's this haivers oan the BBC wabsteid this mornin!?" he asked, after the Bhutan book ran on the Beeb.

   • 2022 November 20, Scots Language Centre (@scotslanguage), Twitter‎^[3]:

     The Scots Language Centre's repone tae the @scotgov, @ScotGovScots consultation aheid o the Scottish Languages Bill is available on oor wabsteid noo - we encourage ye tae hae a read, an gie yir ain repone afore 8t Dizmmer:

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)