troad

See also: Troad

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹəʊd/

Noun

troad (plural troads)

1. Obsolete spelling of trode.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     He chaunst to come, far from all people's troad

References

• “troad”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Dorta, dotar, tardo

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tregess. Cognate with Welsh troed (“foot”).

Noun

troad m (plural treid)

1. foot
2. handle

Mutation

  Mutation of troad  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	troad	droad	zroad	unchanged
plural	treid	dreid	zreid	unchanged

Welsh

Alternative forms

• troead

Etymology

troi (“to turn”) +‎ -ad.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtro.ad/

Noun

troad m or f (plural troadau)

1. rotation, revolution

   Synonym: cylchdroad

2. act of stirring (e.g. with a spoon)
3. turning, twisting

   Synonym: cyfrodeddiad

4. turn or bend in or off a road

   Synonyms: trofa, trobwynt

   1. (figurative) turning point

      Synonym: trobwynt

5. change, alteration, conversion, transformation

   Synonyms: newidiad, trawsffurfiad

   1. (religion) conversion

      Synonym: tröedigaeth

6. translation between languages

   Synonyms: cyfieithiad, trosiad

7. turn of phrase, figure of speech

   Synonyms: troad ymadrodd, ffigur

8. distortion or perversion of meaning

   Synonym: gwyrdroad

9. twist of fate

   Synonym: troad ar fyd

10. event, occurrence

    Synonym: gwyddiad

11. bad turn, duplicitous act, deceit

    Synonyms: troad sâl, hoced, dichell

12. lot, fate

    Synonyms: tynged, ffawd

Usage notes

The word troad is used to refer to a particular kind or instance of rotation. However, when referring the concept or process of rotation, the verbnoun troi is used as a masculine noun.

Derived terms

• ar droad llaw, mewn troad llaw (“immediately”)
• cylchdroad (“revolution”)
• ffurfdroad (“inflection”)
• gwyrdroad (“distortion”)
• troad allan (“self-presentation; expulsion”)
• troad ar fyd (“change of fortune”)
• troad y ganrif (“turn of the century”)
• troad y llaw (“least thing; sleight of hand”)
• troad llygad (“glance”)
• troad (y) rhod (“solstice”)
• troad sâl (“bad turn, ill turn”)
• troad ymadrodd (“turn of phrase”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
troad	droad	nhroad	throad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.