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Dahn vs Ahn - What's the difference?

dahn | ahn |

As prepositions the difference between dahn and ahn

is that dahn is eye dialect of down while ahn is eye dialect of lang=en.

As an adverb dahn

is eye dialect of down.

dahn

English

Adverb

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  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Fritz August Voigt, title=Combed Out, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=David Christie Murray, title=VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=He's got a kind of a way with him an' he sits dahn with the like of huz, and he talks to us as if we was men in place o' bein' cattle, which is the way with most on 'em. }}

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * 2007 , Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Faceless Fiend: The Faceless Fiend: Being the Tale of a Criminal Mastermind, His Masked Minions and a Princess with a Butter Knife, Involving Explosives and a Certain Amount of Pushing and Shoving, Book 2
  • *:“So, wot, people'd pay to throw you dahn the stairs? Dunno abaht that. People in these parts is used to throwing one another dahn stairs for free.
  • ahn

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Stephen Crane, title=Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Ah, go ahn ," replied the other argumentatively. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Booth Tarkington, title=Penrod, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Mister Penrod," she bellowed forthwith, "come ahn down fr'm up there! }}

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