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Yola
Etymology
From Middle English congregacioun + -agh (“suffix forming noun, borrowed from Irish -ach”).
Yola <g> is silent when in <-ngr->, thus 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
Noun
contrishelagh
- 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