treabhadh

Irish

Noun:

treabhadh m (genitive singular treafa)

Declension of treabhadh (third declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an treabhadh
genitive	an treafa
dative	leis an treabhadh don treabhadh

treabhadh

inflection of treabh:
1. autonomous past indicative
2. third-person singular imperative

Mutated forms of *treabhadh*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
treabhadh	threabhadh	dtreabhadh

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

^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 86, page 47
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 105, page 41

treabhadh m (genitive singular treabhaidh)

verbal noun of treabh (“plough”)
ploughing, tillage
an do thòisich thu air treabhadh fhathast? ― did you start ploughing yet?

Proverb: 's e farmad a nì treabhadh ― keeping up with the Joneses (literally, “it's jealousy that makes ploughing”)

^ Oftedal, M. (1956), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 204
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937), The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 41
^ Wentworth, Roy (2003), Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 539