truagh

Irish

Adjective

truagh

1. Obsolete spelling of trua.

Declension

Declension of truagh

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	truagh	thruagh	truagha; thruagha²
Vocative	thruaigh		truagha
Genitive		truaighe	truagha	truagh
Dative	truagh; thruagh¹	thruagh; thruaigh (archaic)	truagha; thruagha²
Comparative	níos truaighe
Superlative	is truaighe

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

truagh f (genitive singular truagha, nominative plural truaghanna)

1. Obsolete spelling of trua.

Mutation

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “truagh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish trúag, from Old Irish tróg.

Adjective

truagh

1. poor, wretched, sad, miserable, pitiful, woeful

Mutation

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language