triús

See also: -trius

Irish

From Middle Irish triubus, probably a borrowing from Old French trebus (“sort of foot covering”), from Late Latin tubrucus, tribuces (“thigh breeches”) (attested by Isidore), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to split, break”), possibly via Germanic (Old High German theobroch (“gaiters”), Gothic *𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌺𐍃 (*þiuhbrōks)).^[1]

triús m (genitive singular triúis, nominative plural triúis)

Declension of triús

Bare forms:

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
triús	thriús	dtriús
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ David MacRitchie (1904) “The Celtic Trews”, in The Scottish Historical Review‎^[1], volume 1, number 4, Edinburgh University Press, retrieved 8 July 2024, page 398

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