tréigean

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish trécud, trécun, tréicen (“act of abandoning, forsaking, foregoing”).

Noun

tréigean m (genitive singular tréigin)

1. verbal noun of tréig (“abandon”)
2. abandonment, defection, desertion

Declension

Declension of tréigean

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative tréigean Vocative a thréigin Genitive tréigin Dative tréigean

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an tréigean Genitive an tréigin Dative leis an tréigean don tréigean

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tréigean	thréigean	dtréigean
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tréigean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trécud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language