Where does “thirder” come from?
thirder (English) comes from English third, from Middle English thirde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-West Germanic *þriddjō, from Proto-Germanic þridjô, from Proto-Indo-European tretyós, from Proto-Indo-European tr̥tyós, from Proto-Indo-European tréyes — three.
thirder (English): With regard to the Sleeping Beauty problem: one who argues that the probability of heads is 1/3
Definitions
- With regard to the Sleeping Beauty problem: one who argues that the probability of heads is 1/3
Ancestry of “thirder”, step by step
thirder traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English third
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | third | The ordinal form of the cardinal number three;... |
| 2 | Middle English | thirde | — |
| 3 | Old English | þridda | third |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *þriddjō | third |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | þridjô | third |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | tretyós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | tr̥tyós | third |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tréyes | three |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |