Where does “thrīe” come from?

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

thrīe (Old Saxon): three

Definitions

  1. three

Ancestry of “thrīe”, step by step

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

Words derived from “thrīe”

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