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Where does “treilea” come from?

treilea (Romanian) comes from Romanian trei, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

treilea (Romanian): third

Definitions

  1. third

Ancestry of “treilea”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romaniantreithree
2Latintrēs—
3Proto-Italictrēsthree
4Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →