speale

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English spelen (to respite, reprieve), from Old English spelian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spɛːl/

Verb

speale

  1. to slow

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 69