A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quhether-sa-evir, pron. [ME and e.m.E. queþer-so-euer (14th c.), whether- (Tindale).] Whichever of the two. —1508 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 113.
Depriuation … fra his facultie and priuilege of burgesry or gildry qu[he]ther sa evir it be