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wailo

wylo

(obsolete, Anglo-Chinese) Go away; begone.
- 1862, Walter White, A Sailor-boy's Log-book from Portsmouth to the Peiho, page 113:
  […] I turned suddenly round, took him by the collar and shook him vigorously, telling him I'd call a policeman if he didn't "wylo" (go away); whereupon he sheered off in double-quick time, while I watched his retreating figure, laughing heartily.

John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Presumably related to gwylan (“gull”), along with Breton gouelañ (“to cry”).[1] Cognate with Middle Cornish wole, ole; Middle Breton gouelaff, goelaff; Modern Breton gouelañ.

(North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈʊɨ̯lɔ/
(South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈʊi̯lɔ/

wylo (first-person singular present wylaf)

to cry, weep

wylofain
wylofus ("wailing, doleful, tearful")

^ Buck, C. D. (2008). A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages. United States: University of Chicago Press, p. 128

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “wylaf”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies