abay
v.v. to wait for someone or something, or to stay in a place for a while. It is an old-fashioned word that you will mostly see in very old books or poems.
v. to wait for, expect, or remain in anticipation. Primarily archaic or poetic in register; it can function both transitively and intransitively.
The knight decided to abay his master's return.
In the ancient tale, the faithful servant chose to abay at the castle gates until the sun finally set.
The poet describes a soul forced to abay the final judgment, lingering in a silent space where time itself seems to have ceased its forward motion.
Inherited from Middle English abay, a-bay, from Old French abai, aboi, abay (“barking”), from the verb abayer.
When used transitively, it takes a direct object representing the person or event being waited for.