truaighe

Irish

Noun

truaighe f (genitive singular truaighe, nominative plural truaigheanna)

  1. obsolete spelling of trua

Mutation

Mutated forms of truaighe
radical lenition eclipsis
truaighe thruaighe dtruaighe

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (“misery; pity”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *trougiyā (“sorrow, sadness”), from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Irish trua and Breton truez (“pity”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪ɾuəjə/

Noun

truaighe f

  1. misery, adversity, woe, wretchedness, calamity, disaster

Mutation

Mutation of truaighe
radical lenition
truaighe thruaighe

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*trowgo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 390
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