contrishelagh

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English congregacioun + -agh (“suffix forming noun, borrowed from Irish -ach”). Yola <g> is silent in <ng>, thus the first <-g-> was dissimilated. The middle <-ga-> was syncopated to simplify articulation. This is a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔntɾɪʃiːˈlɔːɡ/

Noun

contrishelagh

  1. collection, gathering (of things)

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 31
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