tre (plural tres
Obsolete form oftree 1535 Myles Coverdale , transl.,Biblia: The Byble, [ … ] (Coverdale Bible ),[ Cologne or Marburg] :[ Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?] ,→OCLC Jeremiah ] x:[3–4],folio xxviii, verso , column 1:They hewe downe atre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wt nales and hammers, that it moue not.
FromProto-Albanian *treje Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Latin trēs ( “ three ” ) andSanskrit त्रि ( tri ,“ three ” ) .
tre
three tre
very FromProto-Brythonic *treβ Proto-Celtic *trebā Proto-Indo-European *treb- Welsh tref
tre f plural trevow
home ,homestead town ,village tre
at home back ,homewards FromOld Norse þrír Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ f pl ( þrijoʀ ) , fromProto-Germanic *þrīz Proto-Indo-European *tréyes ( “ three ” ) .
The modern Danish form is a merger of the original East Old Norse accusative masculineþrēa þrjá þrēaʀ þrjár
tre
three Borrowed fromFrench très
IPA (key ) : [tre] Hyphenation: tre tre
very Borrowed from Esperanto tre French très
tre
very FromLatin trēs Proto-Italic *trēs Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Sicilian tri
tre (invariable
three tre m invariable
three FromSanskrit त्रयः ( trayaḥ ) , fromProto-Indo-European *tréyes
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three ; 3FromProto-Nuristani *tre Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
tre ( Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri, Western Kata-viri ) [ 1]
three ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016 ) “tr′e”, inNûristânî Etymological Lexicon [1] FromLatin trēs Proto-Italic *trēs
tre (masculine ordinal terzo feminine ordinal terza
( Old Lombard ) three 1274 Bonvesin de la Riva ,Libro de Tre Scrigiure :In questo nostro libro datre guis è scrigiura: In this book we deal withthree types of writing: FromOld English trēow Proto-West Germanic *treu Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-Indo-European *dóru
tre plural tres or treen
atree or a plant that resembles one wood ;timber c. 1382–1395 John Wycliffe [et al. ], edited byJosiah Forshall andFrederic Madden ,The Holy Bible, [ … ] (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV) , Oxford: At theUniversity Press , published1850 ,→OCLC II. Timothy II:20:In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also oftree and of earth. (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) FromOld Irish tre Proto-Celtic *trei Welsh trwy Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ( “ to pass through ” ) ; compareSanskrit तिरस् ( tiras ) ,Latin trāns Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 ( þairh ) .
tre (with the accusative; triggers lenition )
through c. 1000 Rudolf Thurneysen ,Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó , Dublin: Stationery Office, published1935 ,§ 1 ,page 1 , line11 :Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligedatrethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons. Forms combined with a definite article:
Forms combined with a possessive determiner:
Inherited fromLatin trēs Italian tre
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three AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland ] –map 285: “tre; quattro” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it FromOld Norse þrír Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ ( þrijoʀ ) ( feminine plural ) , fromProto-Germanic *þrīz Proto-Indo-European *tréyes tre Icelandic þrír Faroese tríggir
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three FromOld Norse tré ( “ tree; beam ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *trewą ( “ tree ” ) , from pre-Germanic*dréwom , fromProto-Indo-European *dóru ( “ tree ” ) , possibly from*drew- ( “ hard, firm, strong, solid ” ) .
The pluralstrær trærne Danish træ
tre n definite singular treet indefinite plural tre or trær definite plural trea or trærne
tree wood Dette bordet er lagd avtre . This table is made ofwood . FromMiddle Low German treden
tre (imperative tre present tense trer passive tres simple past trådte past participle trådt present participle tredende
tostep (in, out etc.), totread ( military ) Tre av! - Dismissed!( legislation etc. ) tre i kraft -come into effect come into force Fromtråd
tre (imperative tre present tense trer passive tres simple past tredde past participle tredd
tothread tre en nålthread a needle “tre” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .tri ( three, dialectal, also Høgnorsk ) trí trjå trjú ( three, dialectal, gender-depending ) IPA (key ) : /treː/ ,[tʁeː] ,[treː] ,[tɾeː] FromOld Norse þrír Danish tre Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ ( þrijoʀ ) ( feminine plural ) , fromProto-Germanic *þrīz Proto-Indo-European *tréyes tre þrír tríggir English three
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three FromOld Norse tré Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-Indo-European *dóru English tree
tre n definite singular treet indefinite plural tre definite plural trea
tree Trea i skogen var gamle.Thetrees in the forest were old. wood From earliertreda Middle Low German treden Proto-Germanic *trudaną Doublet oftrø trå English tread
tre (present tense trer past tense tredde supine tredd or trett past participle tredd present participle treande imperative tre
( intransitive ) tread ,step 1878 June 19, “Peter Schlemihl”, inFedraheimen page135 :han skynade mi Meining ogtrod tvo Stig attende. He got the memo, and took two steps back. This verb is inflected as a short-formed weak e-verb, according tocurrent standardization . The short form was introduced in 1959, and the weak past tensetredde trå suppletive of each other.
infinitive present tense past tense supine Aasen sg. treda tred trod tradet pl. treda trodo 1901 treda tred trod trade 1917 treda [trede] tred [treder] trod trode 1938 treda [trede] tred [treder] trod tradi 1959 tre, treda, trede trer, tred [treder] tro, trod trådd 1985 tre, treda, trede trer, tred [treder] tro, trod, trådde trede, tredi, trådd, trådt 1991 tre, treda, trede trer, tred, treder tredde, tro, trod tredd, tredt, trede, tredi 2012 (current) tre trer tredde tredd, trett
tre (present tense trer past tense tredde past participle tredd imperative tre
Misspelling oftræ .“tre” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .tre
Alternative form oftri Mutation oftre radical lenition nasalization tre thre tre pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
FromLatin trēs Proto-Italic *trēs Italian tre French trois
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three tre
( nonstandard ) alternative typography oftre’ FromOld Irish tri ( “ through ” ) , fromProto-Celtic *trei Welsh trwy Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ( “ to pass through ” ) .
tre (+ dative ,triggers lenition )
through , by means ofFromOld Swedish þrir ,þrī Runic Swedish þrīR Old Norse þrír Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ ( þrijoʀ ) ( feminine plural ) , fromProto-Germanic *þrīz Proto-Indo-European *tréyes tre þrír tríggir
tre
three Swedish cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
Swedish cardinal numbers from 100 onward
noll ett två tre fyra fem sex sju åtta nio tio elva tolv FromProto-Tocharian *treyä Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Tocharian B trey trai
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three Adams, Douglas Q. (2013 ) “trai”, inA Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European;10 ), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi,→ISBN pages339-340 FromProto-Nuristani *tre Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
tre ( Gambir ) [ 1]
three ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016 ) “tr′e”, inNûristânî Etymological Lexicon [2] tre
Romanization of𐌕𐌓𐌄 Inherited fromLatin trēs Italian tre
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three ( certain coastal Northern dialects, endangered ) te /ʈ/-/t/ merger)FromProto-Vietic *k-lɛː Proto-Katuic *ʔalɛɛ ( “ type of bamboo ” ) (whencePacoh ale ( “ small bamboo used for spears ” ) ).
Attested astle Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).
Doublet ofle măng le ( “ kind of wild bamboo shoots ” ) ).
(classifier cây tre • (𥯌 ,椥
bamboo FromProto-Nuristani *tre Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
tre ( Nisheigram ) [ 1]
three ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016 ) “tre”, inNûristânî Etymological Lexicon [3] tre f plural trefi
Alternative form oftref Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
