leiough

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English liȝen & luggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

Verb

leiough

  1. Alternative form of lee (“to lie”)
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Leiough ut ee die.
      Idle out the day.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 52
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