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truaill

truaill

Irish

Noun

truaill f (genitive singular truaille, nominative plural truaillí)

  1. sheath, scabbard

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
truaill thruaill dtruaill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish trúailnid (corrupts, pollutes, defiles, spoils), from Old Irish drúaillid.

Verb

truaill (past thruaill, future truaillidh, verbal noun truailleadh, past participle truaillte)

  1. pollute, contaminate

Derived terms