an'

• IPA^(key): /æn/, /ən/, [n̩]

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• Rhymes: -æn

an'

1. (Mid-Ulster, others) Contraction of and.

   She'll be ridin' an' comin' up soon.

   = She'll be riding and coming up soon

   The smart girl an' the silly boy.

   = The smart girl and the silly boy

• n.a., NA, -na, N/A, N.A., n/a, Na, na

• an

From English and.

an'

1. and

• Jerene Joseph, Antigua and Barbuda Dictionary (2019)
• Joy Lawrence, The Way We Talk and Other Antiguan Folkways (2003)

• anca
• anc

Probably rom Latin (ad) hanc (hōram) (“in this hour”). Akin to Italian anche, Venetan anca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaŋ/, [ˈaŋ]
  • (Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈa]

an'

1. alternative form of anca (“even, also”)

an'

1. alternative form of an

an'

1. alternative form of an (“and”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Greash an' goouness.

     Grace and goodness.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 94:

     Aar was Thieg, an' Joane, an lhaung Jauane,

     There was Thadee, and John, and long Joan,

• 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 43