murreen

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish mo bhrón (“my sorrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊˈɾiːn/

Interjection

murreen

1. alas!

Derived terms

• murreen-leam

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 58