truagh

Irish

Adjective

truagh

1. Obsolete spelling of trua.

Declension

Declension of truagh

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	truagh	thruagh	truagha; thruagha2
vocative	thruaigh		truagha
genitive		truaighe	truagha	truagh
dative	truagh; thruagh1	thruagh; thruaigh (archaic)	truagha; thruagha2
Comparative	níos truaighe
Superlative	is truaighe

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of truagh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
truagh	thruagh	dtruagh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “truagh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish trúag, from Old Irish tróg, from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Irish trua, Manx treih, and Welsh tru (“wretched, miserable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɾuəɣ/

Adjective

truagh (comparative truaighe)

1. poor, wretched, sad, miserable, pitiful, woeful
   • c. 1782, William Ross, Fill ò rò:

     Is truagh nach d' rugadh dall mi,
     gun chainnt is gun lèirsinn.

     A pity I was not born blind,
     without speech and sight.

Mutation

Mutation of truagh

radical	lenition
truagh	thruagh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language