treoir
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See also: treòir
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish treorach, from Proto-Celtic *treg-ri, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]treoir f (genitive singular treorach, nominative plural treoracha)
- guidance, direction, instruction, directive
- indicator, gauge, index
- movement, progress; effort, strength; help
- (weaponry) sight
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- cúltreoir
- i dtreoir (“in order, ready”)
- ó threoir (“out of action, in disrepair”)
- treoir ghairme (“vocational guidance”)
- treoir luais (“speed indicator”)
- treoir ola (“oil-gauge”)
- treoir ordóige (“thumb-index”)
- treoir thairní (“nail-mould”)
- treoraigh
- tríd an treoir (“throughout the course of events, throughout”)
Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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treoir | threoir | dtreoir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “treoir”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
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- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
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- Irish lemmas
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