treun

Irish

Adjective

treun

1. Obsolete spelling of tréan.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
treun	threun	dtreun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish trén (“strong”), from Proto-Celtic *trexsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɾʲeːn/

Adjective

treun (comparative trèine or treasa)

1. (higher register) strong

   Synonym: làidir

2. sturdy

   Tha am bòrd glè threun! ― The table is very sturdy!

3. brave

Mutation

Mutation of treun

radical	lenition
treun	threun

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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