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Where does “trilatero” come from?

trilatero (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto tri, from English three, from Middle English thre, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

trilatero (Esperanto): a trilateral, triangle

Definitions

  1. a trilateral, triangle

Ancestry of “trilatero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantotrithree
2EnglishthreeA numerical value after two and before four....
3Middle Englishthrethree
4Old Englishþrī—
5Proto-West Germanicþrīʀthree
6Proto-Germanicþrīzthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
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