trá

See also: tra, trà, trä, trã, trả, and tra-

Irish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑːɟ/ (corresponding to the spelling tráigh)
• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑː/
• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠæː/

Noun 1

trá f (genitive singular trá, nominative plural tránna)

1. beach, strand, (sandy) seashore

   Synonym: cladach

   1. (beach at) low water
2. (sailing) foreshore

Declension

Declension of trá

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative trá tránna Vocative a thrá a thránna Genitive trá tránna Dative trá tránna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an trá na tránna Genitive na trá na dtránna Dative leis an trá don trá leis na tránna

Alternative forms

• tráigh (nonstandard)

Derived terms

• biolar trá
• bóthar trá
• bróga trá
• cuileann trá
• gráinneog trá
• imeall trá
• ladhrán trá
• leath trá
• píobaire trá
• praiseach thrá
• scréachóg thrá
• sliogán trá
• sruth trá
• taoide trá
• trá shlogach
• urthrá

 

Noun

trá m (genitive singular trá)

1. verbal noun of tráigh
2. ebb

   Ní fhanann trá le fear mall. ― An ebb does not wait for a slow man.

3. subsidence, decline

Declension

Declension of trá

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative trá Vocative a thrá Genitive trá Dative trá

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an trá Genitive an trá Dative leis an trá don trá

Derived terms

• gan trá
• tuile agus trá

 

Etymology 2

From Old Irish trá (“then, therefore, so, indeed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑː/
• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠæː/

Alternative forms

• tra

Adverb

trá

1. (literary) then, indeed; however

Conjunction

trá

1. (literary) then, indeed; however

Etymology 3

See treá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑː/
• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠæː/

Noun

trá f (genitive singular trá, nominative plural tránna)

1. Alternative form of treá (“spear”)

Declension

Declension of trá

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative trá tránna Vocative a thrá a thránna Genitive trá tránna Dative trá tránna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an trá na tránna Genitive na trá na dtránna Dative leis an trá don trá leis na tránna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
trá	thrá	dtrá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “trá”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “trá”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tráig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• .t. (abbreviation)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /traː/

Adverb

trá (never clause-initial)

1. now, therefore, then
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^c10

     Is bés trá dosom aní-siu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.

     This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.

   Synonym: did(i)u

Descendants

• Irish: trá

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
trá	thrá	trá pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 901, pages 557–58
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language