köken: Borrowed (and phonetically adapted) from Middle Low German gelach, gelōch. Pertaining to legen (“to lay”) and hence originally “food and drink laid on the table”. Now often associated more closely with liegen (“to lie”) and interpreted as “party where people lie down drunk”. Compare Dutch gelag.
köken: From beuveur (“a drinker”) + -erie, with the first part being an antiquated form of current buveur. A more regular form buverie was created in the sixteenth century but dropped from usage in the nineteenth.
Je n’ai qu’un pauvre lopin de terre, mes paysans se croisent les bras, ne rêvent que de beuveries