drine-vold

Yola

Etymology

drine (“three”) +‎ -vold (“-fold”)

Adjective

drine-vold

  1. threefold
    • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:
      Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.
      There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench (be three-fold).

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 111
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