tréas

See also: treas

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʲɾʲeːsˠ]

Etymology 1

Ultimately from English treason or Middle English tresoun, treison, borrowed from Anglo-Norman treson, from Old French traïson (“treason”). See Middle Irish traos, tréson.

Noun

tréas m (genitive singular tréasa)

1. treason; disloyalty, rebellion

Derived terms

• ardtréas (“high treason”)

Etymology 2

From English trace.

Noun

tréas m (genitive singular tréasa)

1. trace, track

Declension

Declension of tréas (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative tréas vocative a thréas genitive tréasa dative tréas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tréas genitive an tréasa dative leis an tréas don tréas

Mutation

Mutated forms of tréas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tréas	thréas	dtréas

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

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tréas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tréas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tréas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “traos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tréson”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language