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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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A, prep.1 Reduced form of o, On prep.Corresponding to Eng. a, current in various uses from late OE.

1. With ordinary nouns. 1456 Peebles B. Rec. 113.
Land awest half the Cors
c1475 Wall. x. 529.
A south the toun
1602 Monkland Baron Ct. 5.
A eistell the wostell end
1610 Carnegie Lett. 343.
Tua legues a this syd off …
1614 Melrose P. 159.
Being a schipboord
1657 Balfour Ann. III. 435.
He … went to Ely, a purpois to embarke

2. With verbal nouns. 1558-66 Knox II. 469.
Not … lang a doing
1596 Dalr. II. 412.
That nathing be … a seiking
1644 Baillie II. 152.
The armies are near a-yocking
1653 Hope Diary 161.
The ludgeing was a faling

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