trá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tra"

Irish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑːɟ/ (corresponding to the spelling tráigh)
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑː/ (genitive, Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /tˠrˠɑːw/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠaːj/ (also corresponding to the spelling tráigh)

Noun

trá f (genitive singular trá, nominative plural tránna)

1. beach, strand, (sandy) seashore

   Synonym: cladach

   1. (beach at) low water
2. (sailing) foreshore

Declension

Declension of trá

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative trá tránna Vocative a thrá a thránna Genitive trá tránna Dative trá tránna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an trá na tránna Genitive na trá na dtránna Dative leis an trá don trá leis na tránna

Alternative forms

• tráigh

Note: the pronunciation in many dialects of Ulster, Connacht, and Munster is in fact better represented by this form.

Derived terms

• biolar trá
• bóthar trá
• bróga trá
• cuileann trá
• gráinneog trá
• imeall trá
• Iúr Cinn Trá
• ladhrán trá
• leath trá
• praiseach thrá
• scréachóg thrá
• sliogán trá
• sruth trá
• taoide trá
• Trá Lí
• trá shlogach
• urthrá

 

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish tráiged, verbal noun of tráigid.

Pronunciation

• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑːw/ (Cois Fharraige, corresponding to the spelling trághadh)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠaːw/ (corresponding to the spelling trághadh)

Noun

trá m (genitive singular trá)

1. verbal noun of tráigh
2. ebb

   Ní fhanann trá le fear mall. ― An ebb does not wait for a slow man.

3. subsidence, decline

Declension

Declension of trá

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative trá Vocative a thrá Genitive trá Dative trá

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an trá Genitive an trá Dative leis an trá don trá

Alternative forms

• trághadh (obsolete)

Derived terms

• gan trá
• tuile agus trá

Etymology 3

From Old Irish trá (“then, therefore, so, indeed”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠaː/

Adverb

trá

1. (literary) then, indeed; however

Conjunction

trá

1. (literary) then, indeed; however

Alternative forms

• tra

Etymology 4

See treá.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠaː/

Noun

trá f (genitive singular trá, nominative plural tránna)

1. Alternative form of treá (“spear”)

Declension

Declension of trá

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative trá tránna Vocative a thrá a thránna Genitive trá tránna Dative trá tránna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an trá na tránna Genitive na trá na dtránna Dative leis an trá don trá leis na tránna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
trá	thrá	dtrá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “trá”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “trá”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tráig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• .t. (abbreviation)
• thrá

Etymology

Unknown. Maybe related to tar (“across”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [traː]

Adverb

trá (never clause-initial)

1. now, therefore, then (in conclusion to what comes before)

   Synonym: did(i)u

For quotations using this term, see Citations:trá.

Descendants

• Irish: trá

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
trá	thrá	trá pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 901, pages 557–58
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Verb

trá

1. Apocopic form of traz; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈaː˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʈaː˦˥]

Verb

trá

1. to gild (cover with a thin layer of gold)

References

• "trá" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Anagrams

• rát