A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1420
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Newing, -yngis.2 (Perhaps Newing vbl. n.1 in a sense ‘news, tidings’ (= Newis n. 2), or conceivably an adv. (= Newlingis adv.) with an early instance of the mod. Sc. adv. suffix -ing(s, or perhaps merely erroneous for Newlingis adv.) —c1420 Wynt. viii. 3813 (C).
And for that newyngis [E. newing] befor day That ȝhe herde me befor say The Kynge of Inglande coyme of were
