Where does “ardtréas” come from?
ardtréas (Irish) comes from Irish tréas, from English trace, from Middle English trace, from Old French trace, from Old French tracier, from Latin tractiāre, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere — to run.
ardtréas (Irish): high treason
Definitions
- high treason
Ancestry of “ardtréas”, step by step
ardtréas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Irish tréas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irish | tréas | treason; disloyalty, rebellion; trace, track |
| 2 | English | trace | An act of tracing; An enquiry sent out for a... |
| 3 | Middle English | trace | A trail, track or road; a pathway or route; One's... |
| 4 | Old French | trace | trace (markings showing where one has been) |
| 5 | Old French | tracier | — |
| 6 | Latin | tractiāre | trace, score, delineate |
| 7 | Latin | tractus | dragged, having been dragged; trailed, having... |
| 8 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |