cambaute

Yola

Etymology

caam (“crooked”) +‎ bath (“bat”). Original /a/ was lengthened to /ɔː/ when in last stressed syllable.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kamˈbɔːt/

Noun

cambaute

  1. A crooked bat or stick.
    Synonym: commaun

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 29
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