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Irish
Noun
truaighe f (genitive singular truaighe, nominative plural truaigheanna)
- Obsolete spelling of trua.
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| truaighe
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thruaighe
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dtruaighe
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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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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish trúaige, from Old Irish trógae (“misery; pity”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *trougiyā (“sorrow, sadness”), from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Irish trua and Breton truez (“pity”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
truaighe f
- misery, adversity, woe, wretchedness, calamity, disaster
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*trowgo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 390