awye

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English awey, from Old English aweġ, from earlier on weġ (“on one's way”). Cognates include English away and Scots awa.

Adverb

awye

  1. away
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Awye wough it.
      Away with it.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 23
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