vear

• Homophone: vedar

vear m

1. indefinite plural of ve

From Middle English fere, from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try, research, risk”).

• IPA^(key): /viː/

vear

1. fear

   Synonym: ferde

   • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:

     Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.

     There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench.

• 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