abeit

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Middle English expression al be it (that), itself shortened from althagh it be that (“although it be that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbiː.ɪt/, /alˈbiː.ɪt/, /alˈbiːt/

Conjunction

abeit

  1. unless, except

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 22
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.