trach

See also: Trach, trách, and Träch

English

Alternative forms

Noun

trach (plural trachs)

  1. (informal) A tracheotomy or tracheostomy.
  2. (informal) The tube inserted in a tracheotomy.
  3. (informal) One who undergoes a tracheotomy.

Verb

trach (third-person singular simple present traches, present participle traching, simple past and past participle trached)

  1. Alternative form of trache (fit with tracheostomy tube).

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós (compare Middle Irish drochta (wooden basin), enlargement of *dóru (tree)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑx/

Noun

trach m (genitive singular trach, nominative plural trachanna)

  1. trough (long, narrow, open container for feeding animals)

Declension

Declension of trach (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative trach trachanna
vocative a thrach a thrachanna
genitive trach trachanna
dative trach trachanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an trach na trachanna
genitive an trach na dtrachanna
dative leis an trach
don trach
leis na trachanna

Derived terms

  • trach uisce (drinking-trough)

Mutation

Mutated forms of trach
radical lenition eclipsis
trach thrach dtrach

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

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