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thre

  1. Obsolete spelling of three.

Noun

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thre

  1. Obsolete spelling of three.

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Middle English

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Middle English numbers (edit)
30
[a], [b] ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: thre
    Ordinal: thridde
    Adverbial: thrie, thries
    Multiplier: threfold
    Distributive: threfold

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Etymology

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From Old English þrīe, þrī, þrēo, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

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thre

  1. three
    • c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folios 6, verso – 7, recto; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:
      Almihti godd· feader· ſune· hali gaſt· aſ ȝe beoð ϸreo an godd: alſƿa ȝe beoð an mihte· an ƿiſdom· ⁊ an luue []
      Almighty God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as both three and one, while being one Might, one Wisdom, and one Love []
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Descendants

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  • English: three
  • Scots: three, threi, hrei
  • Yola: dhree, dhrie, dree

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Old Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse þrír.

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thre

  1. three

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Old Frisian

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Old Frisian numbers (edit)
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: thrē

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ. Cognates include Old English þrī and Old Saxon thrīe.

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thrē m

  1. three

Declension

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Declension of thrē
masculine feminine neuter
nominative thrē thria thriu
accusative thrē thria thriu
genitive thrira, thria thrira, thria thrira, thria
dative thrium, thrim, threm thrium, thrim, threm thrium, thrim, threm

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  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 68

Welsh

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Noun

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thre

  1. Aspirate mutation of tre.