srath

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish srath (“grassland”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sˠɾˠa(h)/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /sˠɾˠa/, [ʂ(ɽ)a][2]

Noun

srath m (genitive singular sratha, nominative plural sratha)

  1. holm (rich flat land near a river), bottom (low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil)
  2. river valley

Declension
Declension of srath

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative srath sratha
Vocative a shrath a shratha
Genitive sratha srath
Dative srath sratha

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an srath na sratha
Genitive an tsratha na srath
Dative leis an srath

don srath

 leis na sratha

Derived terms
  • Srath Bán (“Strabane”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
srath shrath
after an, tsrath		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “srath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 96

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /s̪t̪ɾa(h)/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish srath (“grassland”), from Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”). Probably influenced in meaning by a Brythonic/Pictish cognate, compare Welsh ystrad (“river valley”).

Noun

srath m (genitive singular sratha, plural srathan)

  1. wide, flat river valley; strath
  2. low-lying or flat part of a valley district, farm or country, in contrast to its hilly ground
  3. meadow
  4. dell
  5. (rare) marshy ground
  6. plain beside a river
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: strath

Etymology 2

Cognate with Irish sraith f (“imposition, rate, tax”). The Dictionary of the Irish Language assigns this meaning to Old Irish srath (“grass, sward”),[1] but Old Irish sreth (“series, arrangement”)[2] may be more likely.

Noun

srath m (genitive singular sraith, plural srathan)

  1. tax, fine, amercement

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
srathshrath
after "an", t-srath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “srath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sreth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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