Where does “trinketry” come from?
trinketry (English) comes from English trinket, from English trink, from Old French trenche, from Old French trenchier, from Vulgar Latin trinicare, from Latin trini, from Latin tres, from English three.
trinketry (English): Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively
Definitions
- Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively
Ancestry of “trinketry”, step by step
trinketry traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trinket
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trinket | A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry; A... |
| 2 | English | trink | A kind of fishing net that is attached to a post... |
| 3 | Old French | trenche | trench; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 4 | Old French | trenchier | to cut |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | trinicare | cut into three parts; cut in three parts |
| 6 | Latin | trini | nominative masculine plural of trīnus; genitive... |
| 7 | Latin | tres | three; 3 |
| 8 | English | three | A numerical value after two and before four.... |
| 9 | Middle English | thre | three |
| 10 | Old English | þrī | three |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | þrīʀ | three |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | þrīz | three |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |
via English ry
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ry | A test pattern consisting of a repeating character string alternating letters R and Y, used to test five-level teleprinter and radioteletype (RTTY) systems |