valler

See also: väller

Latin

Verb

vāller

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of vāllō

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English farrer (“great, much”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈliː/

Adjective

valler

1. more, longer in time.
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:

     Th' valler w'speen here, th' lass ee chourch-hey.

     The more we spend here, the less in the churchyard.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 74