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Yola[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English cou, from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kū.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /kuː/
- Homophones: keough, keowe
Noun[edit]
keow (plural keeine or keene or khyne)
- cow
- 1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 102:
- Dhree brailès o' beanès, an a keow at was yole,
- Three barrels of beans, and a cow that was old,
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 49
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