truagh

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Irish

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Adjective

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truagh

  1. Obsolete spelling of trua.

Declension

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Noun

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truagh f (genitive singular truagha, nominative plural truaghanna)

  1. Obsolete spelling of trua.

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
truagh thruagh dtruagh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish trúag, from Old Irish tróg.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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truagh (comparative truaighe)

  1. poor, wretched, sad, miserable, pitiful, woeful
    • c. 1782, William Ross, Fill ò rò:
      Is truagh nach d' rugadh dall mi,
      gun chainnt is gun lèirsinn.
      A pity I was not born blind,
      without speech and sight.

Mutation

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

Further reading

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