Where does “tyè” come from?
tyè (Haitian Creole) comes from French tiers, from Old French tiers, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
tyè (Haitian Creole): A third
Ancestry of “tyè”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | tiers | third; third-party; a third |
| 2 | Old French | tiers | third |
| 3 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 4 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |