Where does “Drents” come from?

Drents (English) comes from Dutch Drents, from Dutch Drenthe, from Old Dutch Thriente, from Old Dutch Thrianta, from Old Dutch thrie, from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Drents (English): A dialect of Dutch Low Saxon

Definitions

  1. A dialect of Dutch Low Saxon

Ancestry of “Drents”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1DutchDrentsof, from, pertaining to or characteric of Drenthe
2DutchDrentheDrenthe, a province of the Netherlands
3Old DutchThriente—
4Old DutchThrianta—
5Old Dutchthriethree
6Proto-West Germanicþrīʀthree
7Proto-Germanicþrīzthree
8Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Germanic þrīz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ →