abune
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbuːn/, /əˈbʏn/
Noun
abune (uncountable)
- (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
Adverb
abune
- (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
Preposition
abune
- (Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of aboon[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- 1877, Peter Burn, English Border Ballads:
- Noo, high abune winds an' waves abune
- 1991, Katharine Mary Briggs, A Dictionary of British Folk Tales in the British Language:
- And he gaed, and as he was bringing hame the water, a raven owre abune his head cried to him to look...
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References
- “abune” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
Scots
Preposition
abune
- above, beyond
- 1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:
- "Leeze me abune them a'," said one of the company, who had waxed warm in the discussion, "for yon auld clear-headed (bald) man, that said, 'Raphael sings an' Gabriel strikes his goolden harp, an' a' the angels clap their wings wi' joy.'
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- 1919, J. B. Salmond, My Man Sandy:
- There was a nesty plook cam' oot juist abune his lug on Setarday, an' he cudna get on his lum hat; so he had to bide at hame a' Sabbath, an' he spent the feck o' the day i' the hoose readin' Tammas Boston's "Power-fold State" an' the "Pilgrim's Progress."
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