tráigh

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish tráigid (to ebb; to exhaust, verb), from tráig (strand, shore, ebb-tide). Doublet of tnáith.

Verb

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

  1. to ebb
  2. to abate, subside, recede, decline
    Níl tuile mhéad nach dtránn. (proverb)
    Nothing can last for ever; things will eventually settle down.
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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tráigh f (genitive singular trágha, nominative plural trághanna)

  1. Munster and Ulster form of trá (strand, beach)
Declension
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Mutation

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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.

Further reading

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