traaue

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish trebaid (“cultivates, tills, ploughs”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /treːu/

Verb

traaue (past hraaue, verbal noun traaue, past participle traauit)

  1. plough
    Ta traa creenagh yn arroo, agh cha jean eh traaue ny magheryn. ― Time ripens the corn, but will not plough the fields.

Mutation

Mutation of traaue
radical lenition eclipsis
traaue hraaue draaue

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

References

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