treih

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish trúag, from Old Irish tróg,[1] from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic truagh, Irish trua, and Welsh tru (“wretched, miserable”).[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

treih

  1. pitiable; miserable, wretched
    Ta mee trimshagh treih. ― I am exceedingly miserable.
  2. pasty, pale; pallid; sallow
  3. lean
  4. thin, emaciated; wasting
  5. apologetic, rueful, sorry, woeful (especially with the particle s' in the copula form)
    S'treih lhiam! ― I am sorry.
    Voirrey s'treih! ― Woe (is me)! (literally, “Dear Mary, it's woeful.”)

Derived terms

  • atreih
  • treihagh
  • treihaght
  • treihid
  • treihnagh
  • treihnaght
  • treihys

Mutation

Mutation of treih
radical lenition eclipsis
treih hreih dreih

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúag”, 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
  3. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 238
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