trach

See also: Trach, trách, and Träch

English

Alternative forms

• trake (rare)

Noun

trach (plural trachs)

1. (informal) A tracheotomy or tracheostomy.
2. (informal) The tube inserted in a tracheotomy.
3. (informal) One who undergoes a tracheotomy.

Verb

trach (third-person singular simple present traches, present participle traching, simple past and past participle trached)

1. Alternative form of trache (“fit with tracheostomy tube”)

Anagrams

• ratch, chart, archt., archt

Irish

Alternative forms

• troch

Etymology

From Old English trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑx/

Noun

trach m (genitive singular trach, nominative plural trachanna)

1. trough (long, narrow, open container for feeding animals)

Declension

Declension of trach

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative trach trachanna Vocative a thrach a thrachanna Genitive trach trachanna Dative trach trachanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an trach na trachanna Genitive an trach na dtrachanna Dative leis an trach don trach leis na trachanna

Derived terms

• trach uisce (“drinking-trough”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
trach	thrach	dtrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “trach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “trach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024