- trasd
- across, trasdan, cross beam, crozier, Old Irish trost, trabs, from tar, tra of thar. Cf. Welsh trawst, rafter, which Stokes and Loth think to be borrowed from Latin transtrum, as also Old Irish trost mentioned above. Scottish has trast or trest, beam, from early French traste, Latin transtrum.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.