Meaning of vala | Babel Free

Definitions

archaic form of volt, third-person singular indicative past of van (“to be”)

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“1844, Sándor Petőfi, János vitéz (John the Valiant) chapter 4, stanza 1, translated by John Ridland”

When the brook made a looking glass of its water, / In whose surface a thousand stars were a-glitter, / Johnny was standing at the foot of Nell's yard; / Though to tell how he'd come to it would have been hard. (literally: “… Johnny was at…”)

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