truaighe

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Irish

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Noun

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truaighe f (genitive singular truaighe, nominative plural truaigheanna)

  1. Obsolete spelling of trua.

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
truaighe thruaighe dtruaighe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (misery; pity),[1] from Proto-Celtic *trougiyā (sorrow, sadness), from *trougos (sorry, sad). Cognate with Irish trua and Breton truez (pity).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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truaighe f

  1. misery, adversity, woe, wretchedness, calamity, disaster

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
truaighe thruaighe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*trowgo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 390