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truaighe

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Irish

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Noun

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truaighe f (genitive singular truaighe, nominative plural truaigheanna)

  1. Obsolete spelling of trua.

Mutation

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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

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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truaighe f

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

Mutation

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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

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  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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