tréan

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See also: trean and trèan

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish trén,[2] from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tréan (genitive singular masculine tréin, genitive singular feminine tréine, plural tréana, comparative treise or tréine)

  1. strong, powerful [with ar ‘over’], mighty, doughty
    Synonyms: láidir, neartmhar, cumhactach
  2. violent, intensive

Declension

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Declension of tréan
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tréan thréan tréana;
thréana²
Vocative thréin tréana
Genitive tréine tréana tréan
Dative tréan;
thréan¹ 		thréan;
thréin (archaic) 		tréana;
thréana²
Comparative níos treise
Superlative is treise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tréan thréan dtréan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “tréan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 207, page 104
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 155, page 60

Further reading

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