truán

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish truagán, from Old Irish trógán.[2] By surface analysis, trua +‎ -án.

Noun

truán m (genitive singular truáin, nominative plural truáin)

  1. wretch (unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person)

Declension

Declension of truán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative truán truáin
vocative a thruáin a thruána
genitive truáin truán
dative truán truáin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an truán na truáin
genitive an truáin na dtruán
dative leis an truán
don truán 		leis na truáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of truán
radical lenition eclipsis
truán thruán dtruán

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

References

  1. ^ “truán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúagán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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