tréan

See also: trean and trèan

Irish

Alternative forms

• treun (oboslete)

Etymology

From Old Irish trén, from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /tʲɾʲiːa̯n̪ˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /tʲɾʲeːnˠ/, /tʲɾʲeːn̪ˠ/

Adjective

tréan (genitive singular masculine tréin, genitive singular feminine tréine, plural tréana, comparative treise or tréine)

1. strong, powerful [+ ar (object) = over], mighty, doughty

   Synonyms: láidir, neartmhar, cumhactach

2. violent, intensive

Declension

Declension of tréan

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	tréan	thréan	tréana; thréana²
Vocative	thréin		tréana
Genitive		tréine	tréana	tréan
Dative	tréan; thréan¹	thréan; thréin (archaic)	tréana; thréana²
Comparative	níos treise
Superlative	is treise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• aintréan
• tréine
• treise

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tréan	thréan	dtréan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “tréan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tréan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 751
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tréan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 60