ee-go

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Etymology

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ee- (past participle prefix) +‎ go (to go)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ee-go

  1. gone
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Hea's ee-go.
      He's gone.
    • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:
      Ho ro! mee cuck is ee-go.
      Ho ro! My cock is agone.
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 14-15:
      till ee zin o'oure daies be var aye be ee-go t'glade.
      until the sun of our lives be gone down the dark valley (of death).

Verb

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ee-go

  1. past participle of goe

References

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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 37