Where does “þri” come from?

þri (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

þri (Old English): three

Definitions

  1. three

Ancestry of “þri”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicþrīʀthree
2Proto-Germanicþrīzthree
3Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “þri”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Germanic þrīz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic þrīʀ →