trach

See also: Trach, trách, and Träch

English

Alternative forms

Noun

trach (plural trachs)

  1. (informal) A tracheotomy or tracheostomy.
  2. (informal) The tube inserted in a tracheotomy.
  3. (informal) One who undergoes a tracheotomy.

Verb

trach (third-person singular simple present traches, present participle traching, simple past and past participle trached)

  1. Alternative form of trache (“fit with tracheostomy tube”)

Anagrams

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t̪ˠɾˠɑx/

Noun

trach m (genitive singular trach, nominative plural trachanna)

  1. trough (long, narrow, open container for feeding animals)

Declension
Declension of trach

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trach trachanna
Vocative a thrach a thrachanna
Genitive trach trachanna
Dative trach trachanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an trach na trachanna
Genitive an trach na dtrachanna
Dative leis an trach

don trach

 leis na trachanna

Derived terms
  • trach uisce (“drinking-trough”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
trach thrach dtrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “trach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “trach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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