contrishelagh

Yola

Etymology

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

The first g was replaced by an unetymological t. The middle ga was syncopated to simplify articulation. This is a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔntrɪʃləx/

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