tréan
See also: trean and trèan
Irish
Alternative forms
- treun (oboslete)
Etymology
From Old Irish trén, from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /tʲɾʲiːa̯n̪ˠ/
- (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /tʲɾʲeːnˠ/, /tʲɾʲeːn̪ˠ/
Adjective
tréan (genitive singular masculine tréin, genitive singular feminine tréine, plural tréana, comparative treise or tréine)
- strong, powerful [+ ar (object) = over], mighty, doughty
- Synonyms: láidir, neartmhar, cumhactach
- violent, intensive
Declension
Declension of tréan
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tréan | thréan | tréana; thréana² | |
| Vocative | thréin | tréana | ||
| Genitive | tréine | tréana | tréan | |
| Dative | tréan; thréan¹ | thréan; thréin (archaic) | tréana; thréana² | |
| Comparative | níos treise | |||
| Superlative | is treise | |||
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
- tréine
- treise
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tréan | thréan | dtréan |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “tréan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “tréan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 751
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tréan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 60