treun

Irish

Adjective

treun

  1. Obsolete spelling of tréan

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
treun threun dtreun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish trén (“strong”), from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t̪ʰɾʲeːn/

Adjective

treun (comparative trèine or treasa)

  1. (higher register) strong
    Synonym: làidir
  2. sturdy
    Tha am bòrd glè threun! ― The table is very sturdy!
  3. brave

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

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “treun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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