tráigh

See also: tràigh

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish tráigid (to ebb; to exhaust, verb), from tráig (strand, shore, ebb-tide).[2] Doublet of tnáith.

Verb

tráigh (present analytic tránn, future analytic tráfaidh, verbal noun trá, past participle tráite) (ambitransitive)

  1. to ebb
  2. to abate, subside, recede, decline
    Níl tuile mhéad nach dtránn. (proverb)
    Nothing can last for ever; things will eventually settle down.
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Irish tráig (strand, shore, ebb-tide).[3]

Noun

tráigh f (genitive singular trágha, nominative plural trághanna)

  1. Munster and Ulster form of trá (strand, beach)
Declension
Declension of tráigh (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tráigh trághanna
vocative a thráigh a thrághanna
genitive trágha trághanna
dative tráigh trághanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tráigh na trághanna
genitive na trágha na dtrághanna
dative leis an tráigh
don tráigh
leis na trághanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of tráigh
radical lenition eclipsis
tráigh thráigh dtráigh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tráigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tráig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading