ayond - From Ulster to America
Source: From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Comments: From Ulster to America recounts the lasting impact eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster have made on the development of the English language of the United States. The book documents over 500 vocabulary items contributed to American English by these ‘Scotch-Irish’ settlers. Each ‘shared’ term with its meaning is authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from the dictionary part of the second edition published by the Ullans Press in 2017.
ayond, ayont prep Beyond, on the other side of. [< a- (< on-) + yond; oed ayond/ayont ‘beyond’ 1724→, Scottish and northern English; snd ayont A prep ‘on the further side of; past, later than’ 1750→]
Ulst.:
1753 Scotch Poems 371 The twa ald wives ayont the fire / Are settled to their hearts desire.
c1800 Thomson (in 1992 Scott and Robinson Samuel Thomson 109) Thou’ll ne’er be sic a tree / As Billy Shakespeare’s mulberry, / Nor e’er ayont the parish be / A thing to brag on.
1886 Lyttle Ballycuddy 36 He said he wuz a loyal Presbytarian, an’ had nae earthly desire in this life ayont the weel bein’ o’ the Newtoonbreda Kirk.
1935 Megaw Carragloon 190 It’s all right for them’s childer that’s near the new school, but it’s a sarious paddle for the wee wans that lives ayont the moss.
1942 Bangor Words 3 = beyond or past: ‘The wee sma hours ayont the twal’.
c1955 Montgomery Heard in Ulster 4 The duck hoose is ayont the pig hoose.
2002 Reynolds Granfeyther’s Tunge 6 In a wee cottar hoose on tha tap o’ tha brae, / Ayont Kilmoyle school is whaur I did lay.
U.S.:
1843 Hall New Purchase 433 Strate ayond is near about whare Bill first seed the wolf or fox.
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The second, revised edition of Michael Montgomery’s From Ulster to America is now available here:
From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English (Europe)
From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English (North America)