ee-go
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]ee- (“past participle prefix”) + go (“to go”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ee-go
- 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
[edit]ee-go
- past participle of goe
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 37