treun

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Irish

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Adjective

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treun

  1. Obsolete spelling of tréan.

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
treun threun dtreun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish trén (strong), 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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treun (comparative trèine or treasa)

  1. (higher register) strong
    Synonym: làidir
  2. sturdy
    Tha am bòrd glè threun!The table is very sturdy!
  3. brave

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
treun threun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “treun”, 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