nonteet

From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (“noontide”).

nonteet

1. noontide rest
   • DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH, line 14-16:

     It is called in local dialect “enteet,” or more properly nonteet (noontide)—“the noontide rest."

   Synonym: enteete

• arich (“morning”)
• eatheet (“evening”)
• neeght (“night”)

• 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 128