murreen-leam

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish mo bhrón (“my sorrow”) + léim (“jump at”).

Prepositional phrase

murreen-leam

1. to my grief and sorrow, or ruin.

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