A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pa. Appar. representing a child's attempt to pronounce Play v. —1529 Lynd. Complaynt 92.
The first sillabis that thow did mute Was ‘Pa, Da Lyn’, vpon the lute
