tréan

See also: trean and trèan

Irish

Alternative forms

treun (obsolete)^[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish trén,^[2] from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /tʲɾʲiːa̯n̪ˠ/^[3]
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /tʲɾʲeːnˠ/^[4]

Adjective

tréan (genitive singular masculine tréin, genitive singular feminine tréine, plural tréana, comparative treise or tréine)

strong, powerful [with ar ‘over’], mighty, doughty
Synonyms: láidir, neartmhar, cumhactach
violent, intensive

Declension

Declension of *tréan*
Positive	singular		plural
Positive	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	tréan	thréan	tréana; thréana²
vocative	thréin	thréan	tréana
genitive	thréin	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

Mutation

Mutated forms of *tréan*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
tréan	thréan	dtréan

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

References

^ “tréan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 207, page 104
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 155, page 60