Where does “treis” come from?

treis (Norman) comes from Old French treis, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

treis (Norman): three

Definitions

  1. three

Ancestry of “treis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old FrenchtreisAlternative form of trois
2Latintrēsthree; 3
3Proto-Italictrēsthree
4Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →