treabhsar

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trousers, in turn from Middle Irish triubhas (“close-fitting shorts”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲɾʲəusˠəɾˠ/

Noun

treabhsar m (genitive singular treabhsair, nominative plural treabhsair)

  1. (pair of) trousers

Declension
Declension of treabhsar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative treabhsar treabhsair
Vocative a threabhsair a threabhsara
Genitive treabhsair treabhsar
Dative treabhsar treabhsair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an treabhsar na treabhsair
Genitive an treabhsair na dtreabhsar
Dative leis an treabhsar

don treabhsar

 leis na treabhsair

Synonyms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
treabhsar threabhsar dtreabhsar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
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