Where does “treize” come from?

treize (Norman) comes from Old French treize, from Latin tredecim, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

treize (Norman): thirteen

Definitions

  1. thirteen

Ancestry of “treize”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtreize—
2Latintredecimthirteen; 13
3Latindecemten; 10
4Latin-nus-an
5Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -nus →Every word from Latin decem →