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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish trén,[2] from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
tréan (genitive singular masculine tréin, genitive singular feminine tréine, plural tréana, comparative treise or tréine)
- strong, powerful , mighty, doughty
- Synonyms: láidir, neartmhar, cumhactach
- violent, intensive
Declension
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tréan
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thréan
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dtréan
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “tréan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 207, page 104
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 155, page 60
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