gandelt

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō. Cognate with English gander (to ramble, wander).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡandəlt/, /ˈɡandət/

Verb

gandelt

  1. wandered, gandered like a gander
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:
      Than stalket, an gandelt, wie o! an gridane.
      Then stalked and wondered, with oh! and with grief.

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 41