trach

See also: Trach, trách, and Träch

English

Alternative forms

• trake (rare)

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

• ratch, chart, archt., archt

Irish

Alternative forms

• troch

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 singular plural nominative trach trachanna vocative a thrach a thrachanna genitive trach trachanna dative trach trachanna forms with the definite article 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

Mutated forms of trach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
trach	thrach	dtrach

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “trach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “trach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “trach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025