truagh

Irish

Adjective

truagh

  1. obsolete spelling of trua

Declension

Declension of truagh
Positive singular plural
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.

Mutation

Mutated forms of truagh
radical lenition eclipsis
truagh thruagh dtruagh

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ʰɾuəɣ/

Adjective

truagh (comparative truaighe)

  1. poor, wretched, sad, miserable, pitiful, woeful
    • c. 1782, William Ross, Fill ò rò:
      Is truagh nach d' rugadh dall mi,
      gun chainnt is gun lèirsinn.
      A pity I was not born blind,
      without speech and sight.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of truagh
radical lenition
truagh thruagh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
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

Further reading

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