A Dictionary of North East Dialect 2011（东北方言词典2011）.pdf

Table of Contents Sample entry A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U W X Y Z Sources and abbreviations Notes Back Cover Material Sample entry Image I A aa, aw I (first person sg. pronoun) exx. Bewick Tyne 1790s, Coxhoe 1916, etc. “where is aa ” Haldane Newc 1879; “Aa divvin’ knaa” Graham Geordie 1979. [OE ic (pronounced ‘ich’) becomes long ‘i’ in Middle English; breaks to ‘ia’, then reduced to long ‘a’. Though conventionally spelt ‘aw’ on Tyneside, the sound in fact is that of a long ‘a’ (aa, ah)] aa to own exx. Brockett Newc Nth 1829, Dinsdale mid-Tees 1849, Tanfield Lea C20/2. “whee’s aa this ” Hull MS wNewc 1880s [OE ah ‘(he) owns’] aabut 1. all but, 2. ah but 1. “aabut overtyen us” Pitman’s Pay G’head, 1826 [all but] 2. “Thoo will, will thi Aabut thoo’ll not!” Hull MS wNewc 1880s [aye but]. EDD distribution to 1900: Nth aad, aud, aald old “alde walles” Cuthbert D’m C15/mid; “coal wis nowt but aad trees an’ things” Haldane Newc 1879; “aad milk – skimmed milk” Hull MS wNewc 1880s; “aad bodee – old person” Dodd Tanfield Lea C20/2. [OE (Ang) ald rather than WS eald] aad-farant old-fashioned, strange “as audfarandly as a man of threescore” Raine Yx 1702; “an audfarand bairn – a child of promising abilities, also grave, sober, etc.” Bell MS Newc 1815. EDD distribution to 1900: Sco, Nth. [ON fara] aal, aw, a’ all “my putting’s a’ done” ‘Collier’s Rant’ Newc, C18/2; “aal aboot stones an’ what not” Haldane Newc 1879; “aal ees watter, aal ees puff – all his capacity” Hull MS wNewc 1880s; “aal the world and pairt of Gyetside” Geeson N’d/D’m ‘1969’. [OE (Ang) all rather than WS eall] aall togither altogether “aall togither like the folks o’ Shields” Graham Geordie 1