trógae

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *trougiyā (“sorrow, sadness”), from *trougos (“sorry, sad”). Cognate with Breton truez (“pity”). Surface analysis trúag +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtroːɣe/, [ˈtroːɣɘ]

Noun

trógae f

1. misery

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	trógaeL	trógaiL	trógai
Vocative	trógaeL	trógaiL	trógai
Accusative	trógaiN	trógaiL	trógai
Genitive	trógae	trógaeL	trógaeN
Dative	trógaiL	trógaib	trógaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 40^b8

  cach la céin aisndís dïa thrógai, in céin n-aili aisṅdís dind ḟortacht du·rat Día dó ⁊ indas dund·rét

  at the one time a statement of his misery, at another time a statement of the help that God has given him and how he has protected him

Descendants

• Middle Irish: trúaige
  • Irish: trua
  • Scottish Gaelic: truaighe

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
trógae	thrógae	trógae pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trúaige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language