freten by sowe

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sun Mar 2 23:56:41 UTC 2008


At 3/2/2008 03:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>1923 _Dialect Notes_ IV 394: _Since the hogs et up m' brother_ adv.
>phr.  A very long time.

Aha!  Et - from the OE "etan".

Joel

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