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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
truagh	thruagh	dtruagh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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

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