Hi! I'd appreciate any info anyone might have on the Gaelic (?) name Tressach, which I'm given to understand is a root for the modern name Tracy.

I'm using it in a story and, being a complete Gaelic beginner I'd really just like to check for certain that Tressach is a valid name, and, importantly, if it is the male form. The character's male- I definitely don't want to mess that up!

The sites I've found so far also seem to agree that it means 'warlike, fierce'. Does anyone know if this is accurate? Any other meanings or info about the name would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

It would be "Treasach," not "Tressach" It would definitely be a male name, as Irish surnames are patronymics (the surname form is Ó Treasaigh).

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Redwolf

Thank you! I meant it as a first name, does that still apply?

Also, I forgot to ask, how is it pronounced?

Roughly TRASS-ukh.

Redwolf

In Ulster we'd pronounce it (roughly) TCHRhAH-sah

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
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In both Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Treasa is a first (given) name for a girl usually treated as equivalent to Theresa (from which it may be derived), but it might have been Anglicized as Tracy as well.

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