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Where does “thrē” come from?

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

Ancestry of “thrē”, step by step

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

Words derived from “thrē”

  • trije
  • träi
  • tjo
  • trii
  • tra
  • tree
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →