tréigean

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish trécud, trécun, tréicen (“act of abandoning, forsaking, foregoing”). By surface analysis, tréig +‎ -an.

Noun

tréigean m (genitive singular tréigin)

1. verbal noun of tréig (“abandon”)
2. abandonment, defection, desertion

Declension

Declension of tréigean (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative tréigean vocative a thréigin genitive tréigin dative tréigean forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tréigean genitive an tréigin dative leis an tréigean don tréigean

Mutation

Mutated forms of tréigean

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tréigean	thréigean	dtréigean

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

Further reading

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