lournagh
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from Middle English lorn, (past participle of lese, lesen (“to lose, be deprived of; to damn, doom to perdition”)) and Irish -ach.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lournagh
- melancholy
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:
- Fade teil thee zo lournagh, co Joane, zo knaggee?
- What ails you so melancholy, quoth John, so cross?
References[edit]
- 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 55