deval

text: (frequently of rain or snow)

text:
Devall then, Sirs, and never send
For daintiths to regale a friend.

ref: 1773, Robert Fergusson, Poems, page 58:

english:
Stop then, Sirs, and never send
For delicacies to entertain a friend.

type: quotation

links: stop stop

links: cease cease

links:
leave off
leave off

raw_glosses: (now literary or dialectal) To stop; to cease; to leave off.

links: move move

links: descend descend

links:
fall off
fall off

raw_glosses: (obsolete) To move downwards; to descend; to fall off.

pos: verb

expansion: devals

sco-verb/getPresP

expansion: devalin

sco-verb/getPast

expansion: devalt

head

sco

verbs

third-person singular simple present

devals

present participle

devalin

simple past and past participle

devalt

expansion: deval (third-person singular simple present devals, present participle devalin, simple past and past participle devalt)

forms:
devals (present singular third-person)
devalin (participle present)
devalt (participle past)
devalt (past)
devall (alternative)
dewall (alternative)
devaul (alternative)
devawl (alternative)
devaal (alternative)
dewal (alternative)
devalve (alternative)
devalge (alternative)

etymology_text: Early Scots devale, deval, devall, dewall, etc. The original sense, "to move downwards, to descend", is attested from 1456; the modern sense "to cease" appears from, c. 1540. Ultimately borrowed from Old French devaler (continued in Modern French as dévaler (“to hurtle/rush down”)), from dé- (“down”) + val (“valley”).

bor

fro

devaler

expansion: Old French devaler

affix

fro

dé-

val

t1: down

t2: valley

expansion: dé- (“down”) + val (“valley”)

ipa: /dəˈvɑːl/

ipa: /dəˈvɔl/

ipa: /dəˈvaldʒ/

note: Roxburghshire

ipa: /dəˈwɑːl/


deval

text:
Fae morn tae nicht there's nae devaal
Fae trauchlin aye an' tyaavin'.

ref: 1934, J. M. Caie, The Kindly North, page 34:

english:
From morning until night there's no stoppage
 From struggling and labouring.

links: Stoppage stoppage

links: cessation cessation

pos: noun

head

noun

plural

devals

expansion: deval (plural devals)

forms:
devals (plural)
devall (alternative)
dewall (alternative)
devaul (alternative)
devawl (alternative)
devaal (alternative)
dewal (alternative)
devalve (alternative)
devalge (alternative)