baush

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Yola

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish bas, bos (“palm of the hand”), from Old Irish bas, bos, from Proto-Celtic *bostā.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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baush (plural baashes)

  1. The palm of the hand.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Raymond Hickey (1988) “A lost Middle English dialect”, in Jacek Fisiak, editor, Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs; 37), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 247
  2. ^ 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 25
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