beanès

Yola

Alternative forms

• beanes, baanès, baanes, banès

Etymology

From Middle English bean, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō. Compare also baam (“beam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛːnz/, /baːnz/

Noun

beanès

1. beans
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 93:

     Aar was pizzeen, an beanès, an barich amang.

     There were pease and beans, and barley-mung.

   • 1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 102:

     Dhree brailès o' beanès, an a keow at was yole,

     Three barrels of beans, and a cow that was old,

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 25