zough
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sighe.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
zough
- sigh
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:
- wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.
- we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.
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 82