aaght

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Etymology

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Noun

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aaght m (genitive singular aaght, plural aaghtyn)

  1. board, lodging, digs, accommodation
  2. covert, den (of animal)

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Verb

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aaght (verbal noun aaghtaghey, present participle gaaghtaghey, past participle aaghtit)

  1. lodge
  2. shelter

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Yola

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Pronoun

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aaght

  1. Alternative form of aught (anything)
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Note will wee dra aaght to-die?
      I don't know will we draw any to-day?

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  • 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 59