coronach

[ kawr-uh-nuh kh, kor- ]

/ ˈkɔr ə nəx, ˈkɒr- /

(in Scotland and Ireland) a song or lamentation for the dead; dirge.

Origin of coronach

1490–1500; < Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge

But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.

Lay Morals |Robert Louis Stevenson
"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach.

Gilian The Dreamer |Neil Munro
Two or three women sate under the gallows, who seemed to be mourning, and singing the coronach of the deceased in a low voice.

A Legend of Montrose |Sir Walter Scott
And the mermen swam fast to be with her, and ceased from their own song, for the wind sang a coronach in the canvas and cordage.

The Field of Clover |Laurence Housman

It were pity to deny my delicate cousin the luxury of a coronach over the swollen corpse of her minion!'

Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 |Various

coronach

/ (ˈkɒrənəx, -nək) /

Scot and or Irish a dirge or lamentation for the dead

C16: from Scottish Gaelic corranach; related to Irish rānadh a crying