tréan

See also: trean and trèan

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish trén,[2] from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

tréan (genitive singular masculine tréin, genitive singular feminine tréine, plural tréana, comparative treise or tréine)

  1. strong, powerful [with ar ‘over’], mighty, doughty
    Synonyms: láidir, neartmhar, cumhactach
  2. violent, intensive

Declension

Declension of tréan
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tréan thréan tréana;
thréana2
vocative thréin tréana
genitive tréine tréana tréan
dative tréan;
thréan1 		thréan;
thréin (archaic) 		tréana;
thréana2
Comparative níos treise
Superlative is treise

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tréan
radical lenition eclipsis
tréan thréan dtréan

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

References

  1. ^ “tréan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 207, page 104
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 155, page 60

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