Where does “treghys” come from?

treghys (Cornish) comes from Cornish treghi, from Proto-Indo-European trewk-.

treghys (Cornish): cut#Adjective

Definitions

  1. cut#Adjective

Ancestry of “treghys”, step by step

treghys traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Cornish treghi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishtreghito cut, slice
2Proto-Indo-Europeantrewk-

via Cornish ys

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishyscorn
Every word from Proto-Indo-European trewk-