Note 368 — THE TAILOR AND THE LADY AND THE CAPTAIN.[364]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In text “Ayoh” which is here, I hold, a corruption of “Í (or Ayy) hú” = “yes indeed he.” [I take “aywah” (as I would read the word) to be a different spelling for “aywa” = yes indeed, which according to Spitta Bey, Gr. p. 168 is a contraction of “Ay (Í) wa’lláhi,” yes by Allah, “What? thy lover?” asks the husband, and she emphatically affirms the fact, to frighten the concealed tailor.—St.]