Where does “tretee” come from?
tretee (Middle English) comes from Old French traieté, from Latin tractatus, from Latin tractare, from Latin tracto, from Latin tractus, from Latin trahere, from Latin traho, from Proto-Italic traɣō — to run.
Ancestry of “tretee”, step by step
tretee traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French traieté
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | traieté | — |
| 2 | Latin | tractatus | tugged, dragged, hauled; handled, managed;... |
| 3 | Latin | tractare | present active infinitive of tractō;... |
| 4 | Latin | tracto | I tug, drag or haul; I handle or manage; I... |
| 5 | Latin | tractus | dragged, having been dragged; trailed, having... |
| 6 | Latin | trahere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | traho | I drag, pull; I trail; I extract, withdraw |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | traɣō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | tregʰ- | to drag, pull?; to run, walk |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰregʰ- | to run |