vatherless
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English faderles, from Old English fæderlēas, from Proto-West Germanic *faderlaus.
Adjective
vatherless
- fatherless
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1:
- Ee-left vatherless.
- Left fatherless.
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 102