Where does “Drei” come from?

Drei (German) comes from Middle High German drī, from Old High German drī, from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Drei (German): three

Definitions

  1. three

Ancestry of “Drei”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germandrīthree
2Old High Germandrīthree
3Proto-West Germanicþrīʀthree
4Proto-Germanicþrīzthree
5Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “Drei”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Germanic þrīz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ →