abeit

Yola

Alternative forms

• albeit, albiet

Etymology

From the Middle English expression al be it (that), itself shortened from althagh it be that (“although it be that”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈbiː.ɪt/, /alˈbiː.ɪt/, /alˈbiːt/

Conjunction

abeit

1. unless, except

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 22