Where does “trois” come from?

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

trois (Old French): three

Definitions

  1. three

Ancestry of “trois”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintrēsthree; 3
2Proto-Italictrēsthree
3Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “trois”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →