y'art
Yola
[edit]Contraction
[edit]y'art
- Alternative form of yarth
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:
- Huck nigher; y'art scuddeen; fartoo zo hachee?
- Come nearer; you're rubbing your back; why so ill tempered?
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 84