See also: trèig

Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish tréicid (to abandon, forsake).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

tréig (present analytic tréigeann, future analytic tréigfidh, verbal noun tréigean, past participle tréigthe)

  1. (transitive) to abandon, forsake, desert, leave, fall away from
    Synonym: fág
  2. (transitive) renounce, give up
    Synonym: diúltaigh
  3. (intransitive) rat (to tell on someone)
  4. (transitive) to fail (be wanting to, be insufficient for, disappoint, desert)
  5. (intransitive) to fade (of color, to lose brightness)
  6. (intransitive) to lapse (fall into error or heresy)

Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tréig thréig dtréig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Scottish Gaelic edit

Verb edit

tréig (past thréig, future tréigidh, verbal noun tréigsinn or tréigeadh, past participle tréigte)

  1. Superseded spelling of trèig (to abandon).

Mutation edit

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