pouingaan
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unetymological -i- was influenced by Irish <úi> /uː/.
Noun[edit]
pouingaan
- Alternative form of poumgaam
- 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 108:
- An hea zet up a pouingaan an a cry.
- And he set up a puingaan and a cry.
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 108