straidhn
Irish
Alternative forms
- stradhain
Etymology
From English strain, from the verb, from Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre, from Latin stringō (“to draw tight together, to tie”).
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /sˠt̪ˠɾˠɑinʲ/
- IPA(key): /sˠt̪ˠɾˠəinʲ/
Noun
straidhn f (genitive singular straidhne)
- (engineering) strain (measure of object deformation)
- fit (sudden outburst of emotion)
- Synonym: taom
Declension
Declension of straidhn
Second declension
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Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- straidhneáil
- straidhniúil
Further reading
- “straidhn” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
- “straḋain” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 695.
- "straidhn" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 14
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