raaye

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English rathe (“quickly, quick”), from Old English hraþe (“quickly”), from Proto-West Germanic *hraþō, *hradō (“quickly”), adverb form of *hraþ, *hrad (“quick”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɾiː/
  • Homophone: ree

Adjective

raaye

  1. early

References
  • 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 64
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