tréas

See also: treas

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʲɾʲeːsˠ]

Etymology 1

Ultimately from English treason or Middle English tresoun, treison, borrowed from Anglo-Norman treson, from Old French traïson (“treason”). See Middle Irish traos, tréson.

Noun

tréas m (genitive singular tréasa)

1. treason; disloyalty, rebellion

Derived terms

• ardtréas (“high treason”)

Etymology 2

From English trace.

Noun

tréas m (genitive singular tréasa)

1. trace, track

Declension

Declension of tréas

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative tréas Vocative a thréas Genitive tréasa Dative tréas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an tréas Genitive an tréasa Dative leis an tréas don tréas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tréas	thréas	dtréas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tréas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tréas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tréas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “traos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tréson”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language