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Where does “trois point” come from?

trois point (English) comes from French trois, from Middle French troys, from Old French trois, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

trois point (English): The third point from the outer edge on each...

Definitions

  1. The third point from the outer edge on each...

Ancestry of “trois point”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtroisthree
2Middle Frenchtroys—
3Old Frenchtroisthree
4Latintrēs—
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
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