tromas

Irish

Etymology

trom +‎ -as

Noun

tromas m (genitive singular tromais)

  1. oppression, distress
  2. heaviness, bulkiness
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Bliadhain ’na dhiaidh sin, thug an rí fá deara an tromas a bhí ag éirghe innti, acht leig sise uirri gur bh’é an biadh maith a bhí sí ag fagháil a bhí ag cur an bhisigh sin uirri.
      A year after that, the king noticed how bulky she was growing, but she pretended that it was the good treatment she was getting that was putting that improvement on her.

Declension

Declension of tromas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tromas
vocative a thromais
genitive tromais
dative tromas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tromas
genitive an tromais
dative leis an tromas
don tromas

Mutation

Mutated forms of tromas
radical lenition eclipsis
tromas thromas dtromas

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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