Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish trécud, trécun, tréicen (“act of abandoning, forsaking, foregoing”). By surface analysis, tréig + -an.
Noun
tréigean m (genitive singular tréigin)
- verbal noun of tréig (“abandon”)
- abandonment, defection, desertion
Declension
Declension of tréigean (first declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of tréigean
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lenition
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eclipsis
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thréigean
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dtréigean
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tréigean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trécud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language