trácht
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish trácht (“strand, shore”).
Noun
trácht m (genitive singular tráicht, nominative plural tráicht)
Declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Etymology 2
From Old Irish trácht (“the sole of the foot, the foot”).
Noun
trácht m (genitive singular tráchta, nominative plural tráchtanna)
Declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- atrácht (“retread (tyre)”, transitive verb)
Etymology 3
From Old Irish trácht (“trade, intercourse; movement, travelling”).
Noun
trácht m (genitive singular tráchta)
- verbal noun of trácht (“go, proceed; journey, travel”)
- going, travelling; journey, passage; frequentation
- traffic
- traffic on roads, etc.
- traffic in goods, trade
Declension
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Alternative forms
- tráchtaint (verbal noun)
Derived terms
- bac tráchta (“traffic block”)
- bád tráchta (“cargo-boat”)
- brú tráchta (“traffic congestion”)
- coinbhéirseacht tráchta (“traffic convergence”)
- comharthaí tráchta (“traffic-signals”)
- maor tráchta (“traffic-warden”)
- oileán tráchta (“traffic island”)
- plódú tráchta (“congestion of traffic”)
- post-trácht (“mail-order business”)
- scrogall tráchta (“traffic bottleneck”)
- soilse tráchta (“traffic-lights”)
- stopadh tráchta (“hold-up of traffic”)
- tráchtáil (“(act of) trading; trade, commerce”)
- tráchtaisnéis (“statement of account”)
- tráchtearra (“article of trade, commodity”)
- tráchtlong (“merchantman”)
- tráchtsolas (“traffic-light”)
- tranglam tráchta (“traffic confusion”)
Related terms
- tráchtálaí (“trader”)
Verb
trácht (present analytic tráchtann, future analytic tráchtfaidh, verbal noun trácht, past participle tráchta)
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Etymology 4
A modern form of Old Irish tráchtad (“discourse, account, mention”) (compare tráchtadh).
Noun
trácht m (genitive singular tráchta, nominative plural tráchtanna)
- verbal noun of trácht (“mention; discuss, comment on; relate”)
- (with ar, thar) mention (of)
- Synonym: teacht thar
- discourse, comment
- (ecclesiastical) tract
Declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Alternative forms
- tráchtadh (verbal noun)
Verb
trácht (present analytic tráchtann, future analytic tráchtfaidh, verbal noun trácht, past participle tráchta) (transitive, intransitive)
- mention, discuss, relate
- relate, recite, tell, narrate, perform (with ar (“on”))
- Synonyms: ársaigh, inis, reic, aithris, eachtraigh
- discuss, examine, consider, explore, comment on (with ar (“on”))
- Synonyms: cíor, cuir faoi chaibidil, spíon, pléigh, déan cíoradh, déan trácht
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms
- tráchtaire (“commentator”)
- tráchtas (“treatise, dissertation; thesis”)
Related terms
- tráchtaireacht (“(act of) commenting; commentary”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
trácht | thrácht | dtrácht |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “trácht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “trácht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trácht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 trácht ‘strand, shore’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 trácht ‘the sole of the foot, the foot’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “5 trácht ‘trade, intercourse; movement, travelling’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “4 trácht ‘discourse, account, mention’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tráchtad ‘act of discussing; commentary, interpretation’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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