weehn

Jamaican Creole

weehn

was, were
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 25:42:
  Kaaz mi did onggri an unu neehn gi mi notn fi nyam. Wen mi chuot weehn jrai unu neehn gi mi notn fi jringk.
  Because I hungered and you gave me nothing to eat. When my throat was dry you gave me nothing to drink.
Auxilliary to its following verb, used to mark past tense.
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 25:38:
  A wen wi si yu, no nuo yu, an weehn tek yu iina wi ous?
  We saw you, didn't know you, yet took you into our house?
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 15:15:
  So Piita se, “Di tuori we yu weehn tel di Farisii piipl dem, a wa yu did miin?”
  So Peter said "The story that you told the Pharisees, what did it mean?
combined with a, da or de to show durative or progressive action in the past
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 28:13:
  an se tu dem se, “A dis unu fi tel evribadi se, ‘Im falara dem kom iina di nait an kom tiif im badi wen wi weehn a sliip.’
  and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him [Jesus' body] away while we were asleep.’

^ F. G. Cassidy, R. B. Le Page (2002) Dictionary of Jamaican English, 2nd edition, The University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 466