traw

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /traf/
  • Rhymes: -af
  • Syllabification: traw
  • Homophone: traf

Verb

traw

  1. second-person singular imperative of trawić

Noun

traw f

  1. genitive plural of trawa

Further reading
  • traw in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Stem of taro (“to strike, to hit”).

Noun

traw m (plural trawiau)

  1. (music, phonetics) pitch
Derived terms
  • acen draw (“pitch accent”)
  • offeryn traw (“tuned instrument”)
  • traw cyngerdd (“concert pitch”)
  • traw cynhenid (“absolute pitch”)
  • traw isel (“low pitch”)
  • traw llais (“voice pitch”)
  • traw perffaith (“perfect pitch”)
  • traw perthynol (“relative pitch”)
  • traw safonol (“standard pitch, French pitch”)
  • traw uchel (“high pitch”)

Adverb

traw

  1. (literary) Alternative form of draw (“there, yonder, over”)
Usage notes

This adverb is found almost exclusively in its soft-mutated form draw today except in literary contexts where forms such as aspirate-mutated thraw may be encountered. In essence, draw has become the unmutatable, standard form of the word.

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
traw draw nhraw thraw
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “traw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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