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Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin trabs.
Noun
trua f
- beam, rafter, raft
Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (“misery; pity”).
Noun
trua f (genitive singular trua, nominative plural truanna)
- pity, sympathy (with do plus the person pitied or sympathized with)
Tá trua agam don amadán.- I pity the fool.
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Irish trúag, from Old Irish tróg.
Adjective
trua
- pitiable; miserable, wretched
- lean
- thin, emaciated; wasting
Noun
trua m (genitive singular truaite)
- verbal noun of truaigh (“make lean, emaciate; become thin, waste away”)
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| trua
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thrua
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dtrua
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “trúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “truaġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 759
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “truaiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 759
- Entries containing “trua” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “trua” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 59
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 32
Latin
Etymology
Disputed. Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”); compare Sanskrit तर्कु (tarku, “spindle”), Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross, adverse”) and Latin torqueō (“to twist”). Alternatively from *(s)twerH- (“to turn, stir, agitate”).
Noun
trua f (genitive truae); first declension
- A ladle
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “trua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- trua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “trua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Noun
trua m or f
- definite feminine singular of tru
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Verb
trua
- inflection of true:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
trua f
- definite singular of tru