tréig

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tréicid (to abandon, forsake).

Pronunciation

Verb

tréig (present analytic tréigeann, future analytic tréigfidh, verbal noun tréigean, past participle tréigthe)

  1. (transitive) to abandon, forsake, desert, leave, fall away from
    Synonym: fág
  2. (transitive) renounce, give up
    Synonym: diúltaigh
  3. (intransitive) rat (to tell on someone)
  4. (transitive) to fail (be wanting to, be insufficient for, disappoint, desert)
  5. (intransitive) to fade (of color, to lose brightness)
  6. (intransitive) to lapse (fall into error or heresy)

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tréig thréig dtréig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tréig (past thréig, future tréigidh, verbal noun tréigsinn or tréigeadh, past participle tréigte)

  1. Superseded spelling of trèig (to abandon).

Mutation

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