kurkeen

Finnish

Noun

kurkeen

1. illative singular of kurki

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish *cruaichín, unattested diminutive of cruach (“stack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊɾˈkiːn/

Noun

kurkeen

1. 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

• 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