Where does “trei” come from?

trei (Istro-Romanian) comes from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

trei (Istro-Romanian): three

Definitions

  1. three

Ancestry of “trei”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintrēsthree; 3
2Proto-Italictrēsthree
3Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →