contrishelagh

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English congregacioun + -al + -agh (“suffix forming noun, borrowed from Irish -ach”).

The first g became t in unstressed syllable, the ga and oun was syncopated to simplify articulation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔntrɪʃələx/

Noun

contrishelagh

  1. collection, gathering (of things)

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 31
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