Where does “τρεῖς” come from?

τρεῖς (Ancient Greek) comes from Proto-Hellenic tréyes, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

τρεῖς (Ancient Greek): three

Definitions

  1. three

Ancestry of “τρεῖς”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Hellenictréyesthree
2Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “τρεῖς”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Hellenic tréyes →