tràigh

See also: tráigh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tráig (“strand, shore, ebb-tide”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʰɾaːj/

Noun

tràigh f (genitive singular tràighe or tràgha or tràghad, plural tràighean or tràinnean)

  1. (sandy) beach, seabeach, strand
    Bidh sinn a' cluiche ball-bholaidh air an tràigh a h-uile Dihaoine. ― We play volleyball on the beach every Friday.
  2. shore
  3. (sandy) riverbank

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

tràigh (past thràigh, future tràighidh, verbal noun tràghadh, past participle tràighte)

  1. ebb
  2. subside
  3. settle
  4. drain, empty
  5. beach (a vessel)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tràighthràigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “tràigh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tráig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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