kurkeen
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Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
kurkeen
Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Irish *cruaichín, unattested diminutive of cruach (“stack”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kurkeen
- A little stack on the ground.
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:
- Ich woode be pitcht ee kurkeen, ar zippeen, to a coolaan.
- I would be poked into the mow or the stack up to the back of my head.
Further reading[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 51