Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryBarking or baying of dogs at their prey.
Inherited from Middle English abay, a-bay, from Old French abai, aboi, abay (“barking”), from the verb abayer.
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