treenig

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of tre +‎ enig.

Adjective

treenig (not comparable)

  1. triune
    • 1913, Jeanna Oterdahl, Ett gammalt borgarhem‎[1], Skoglunds förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Lunds universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 28 March 2025, page 163:
      – För det treeniga Nordens framtid! säger han varmt, höjer glaset och tömmer det, och så göra alla de andra.
      "For the future of the triune North!" he says warmly, raises his glass and empties it, and so do all the others.
    • 2012 May 25, “En ande som en vind”, in Sveriges Radio‎[2], archived from the original on 28 March 2025:
      Sune Eriksson, pensionerad präst, [...] tycker [...] att man har krånglat till det med en treenig Gud.
      Sune Eriksson, a retired priest, thinks they have complicated things with a triune God.

Declension

Inflection of treenig
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular treenig — —
neuter singular treenigt — —
plural treeniga — —
masculine plural2 treenige — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 treenige — —
all treeniga — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

References

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