tráigh

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Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Irish tráigid (ebbs, recedes; causes to ebb; retreats, diminishes; exhausts, verb), from tráig (strand, shore, ebb-tide).

Verb[edit]

tráigh (present analytic tránn, future analytic tráfaidh, verbal noun trá, past participle tráite)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) ebb
  2. (transitive, intransitive) abate, subside, recede, decline
    Proverb:
    Níl tuile mhéad nach dtránn.
    Nothing can last for ever; things will eventually settle down.
Conjugation[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Irish tráig (strand, shore, ebb-tide).

Noun[edit]

tráigh f (genitive singular trágha, nominative plural trághanna)

  1. Munster and Ulster form of trá (strand, beach)
Declension[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tráigh thráigh dtráigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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