See also: tráigh

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish tráig (strand, shore, ebb-tide).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tràigh f (genitive singular tràighe or tràgha or tràghad, plural tràighean or tràinnean)

  1. (sandy) beach, seabeach, strand
    Bidh sinn a' cluiche ball-bholaidh air an tràigh a h-uile Dihaoine.We play volleyball on the beach every Friday.
  2. shore
  3. (sandy) riverbank

Declension

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Derived terms

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Verb

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tràigh (past thràigh, future tràighidh, verbal noun tràghadh, past participle tràighte)

  1. ebb
  2. subside
  3. settle
  4. drain, empty
  5. beach (a vessel)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tràigh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tráig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language