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tre

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tre"

English

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Noun

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tre (plural tres)

  1. Obsolete form of tree.
    • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:
      They hewe downe a tre 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.

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Albanian

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Albanian numbers (edit)
30
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    Cardinal: tre, tri
    Ordinal: tretë

Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *treje, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate to Latin trēs (“three”) and Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

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tre

  1. three
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Breton

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Adverb

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tre

  1. very
    Mat-tre!
    Very good!

Cornish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *treβ, from Proto-Celtic *trebā, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Cognate with Welsh tref.

Noun

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tre f (plural trevow)

  1. home, homestead
  2. town, village

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tre

  1. at home
  2. back, homewards

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Mutation of tre
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
tre dre thre unchanged unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Danish

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Danish numbers (edit)
30
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    Cardinal: tre
    Ordinal: tredje
Danish Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology

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From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ f pl (þrijoʀ), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).

The modern Danish form is a merger of the original East Old Norse accusative masculine þrēa (West þrjá) and the nominative/accusative feminine þrēaʀ (West þrjár).

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tre

  1. three

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French très.

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  • IPA(key): /tre/
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  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: tre

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tre

  1. very

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  • → Ido: tre

Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto tre, French très.

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tre

  1. very

Italian

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Italian numbers (edit)
30
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    Cardinal: tre
    Ordinal: terzo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 3º
    Adverbial: tre volte
    Multiplier: triplo, triplice
    Collective: tutti e tre
    Fractional: terzo
Italian Wikipedia article on 3

Etymology

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From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Sicilian tri.

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tre (invariable)

  1. three

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tre m (invariable)

  1. three
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Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
             
asso due tre quattro cinque sei sette
             
otto nove dieci fante donna,
regina 		re jolly, joker,
matta

Kalasha

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit त्रयः (trayaḥ), from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

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tre

  1. three; 3

Kamkata-viri

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Kamviri cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tre
Kativiri cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tre

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From Proto-Nuristani *tre, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

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tre (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri, Western Kata-viri)[1]

  1. three

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  1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “tr′e”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]

Lombard

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Etymology

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From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs.

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tre (masculine ordinal terzo, feminine ordinal terza)

  1. (Old Lombard) three
    • 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:
      In questo nostro libro da tre guis è scrigiura:
      In this book we deal with three types of writing:

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Middle English

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Etymology

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    From Old English trēow, from Proto-West Germanic *treu, in turn from Proto-Germanic *trewą. Ultimately descended from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

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    tre (plural tres or treen)

    1. a tree or a plant that resembles one
    2. wood; timber

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    Middle Irish

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    Etymology

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    From Old Irish tre, from Proto-Celtic *trei (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”); compare Sanskrit तिरस् (tiras), Latin trāns and Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh).

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    tre (with the accusative; triggers lenition)

    1. through
      • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, line 11:
        Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe 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.

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    Forms combined with a definite article:

    • tríasin (“through the m sg or f sg”)

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    Neapolitan

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.

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    tre

    1. three

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    • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 285: “tre; quattro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Norwegian Bokmål cardinal numbers
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        Cardinal : tre
        Ordinal : tredje

    Etymology 1

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    From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

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    tre

    1. three
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    Etymology 2

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    Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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    From Old Norse tré (“tree; beam”), from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), possibly from *drew- (“hard, firm, strong, solid”).

    The plurals trær and trærne are derived from Danish træ.

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    tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre or trær, definite plural trea or trærne)

    1. tree
    2. wood
      Dette bordet er lagd av tre.
      This table is made of wood.
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    Etymology 3

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    From Middle Low German treden.

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    tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past trådte, past participle trådt, present participle tredende)

    1. to step (in, out etc.), to tread
      (military) Tre av! - Dismissed!
      (legislation etc.) tre i kraft - come into effect, come into force
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    Etymology 4

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    From tråd.

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    tre (imperative tre, present tense trer, passive tres, simple past tredde, past participle tredd)

    1. to thread
      tre en nål ― thread a needle

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Norwegian Nynorsk cardinal numbers
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        Cardinal : tre
        Ordinal : tredje

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    • tri (three, dialectal, also Høgnorsk)
    • trí, trjå, trjú (three, dialectal, gender-depending)

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    • IPA(key): /treː/, [tʁeː], [treː], [tɾeː]
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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Norse þrír probably through Danish tre, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Danish and Swedish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir, English three.

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    tre

    1. three
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    Etymology 2

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    From Old Norse tré, from Proto-Germanic *trewą, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru. Akin to English tree.

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    tre n (definite singular treet, indefinite plural tre, definite plural trea)

    1. tree
      Trea i skogen var gamle.
      The trees in the forest were old.
    2. wood
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    Etymology 3

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    From earlier treda, from Middle Low German treden, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną. Doublet of trø and trå. Akin to English tread.

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    tre (present tense trer, past tense tredde, supine tredd or trett, past participle tredd, present participle treande, imperative tre)

    1. (intransitive) to tread, step
      • 1878 June 19, “Peter Schlemihl”, in Fedraheimen, page 135:
        han skynade mi Meining og trod tvo Stig attende.
        He got the memo, and took two steps back.
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    This verb is inflected as a short-formed weak e-verb, according to current standardization. The short form was introduced in 1959, and the weak past tense tredde was introduced in 1991, two developments made final by the reform of 2012. There is an outline of the development within the table below. The history is also intertwined with its semantically overlapping doublet, trå, as their inflections have been suppletive of each other.

    Historical inflection of tre, treda and trede
    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
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    Verb

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    tre (present tense trer, past tense tredde, past participle tredd, imperative tre)

    1. Misspelling of træ.

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    Old Irish

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    tre

    1. Alternative form of tri

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    Mutation of tre
    radical lenition nasalization
    tre thre tre
    pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Piedmontese

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    Piedmontese cardinal numbers
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        Cardinal : tre

    Etymology

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    From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs. Cognates include Italian tre and French trois.

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    tre

    1. three

    Romanian

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    tre

    1. (nonstandard) alternative typography of tre’

    Scottish Gaelic

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    Etymology

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    From Old Irish tri (“through”), from Proto-Celtic *trei (compare Welsh trwy), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to pass through”).

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    tre (+ dative, triggers lenition)

    1. through, by means of

    Swedish

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    Swedish numbers (edit)
    30
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        Cardinal: tre
        Ordinal: tredje
        Ordinal abbreviation: 3:e
        Multiplier: trefaldig
        Collective: trio
        Fractional: tredjedel

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    From Old Swedish þrir, þrī, from Runic Swedish þrīR, from Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Norwegian and Danish tre, Icelandic þrír, Faroese tríggir.

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    tre

    1. three

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    Swedish cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
    —0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
    0— noll ett, en två tre fyra fem sex sju åtta nio
    1— tio elva tolv tretton fjorton femton sexton sjutton arton nitton
    2— tjugo tjugoett, tjugoen tjugotvå tjugotre tjugofyra tjugofem tjugosex tjugosju tjugoåtta tjugonio
    3— trettio trettioett, trettioen trettiotvå trettiotre trettiofyra trettiofem trettiosex trettiosju trettioåtta trettionio
    4— fyrtio fyrtioett, fyrtioen fyrtiotvå fyrtiotre fyrtiofyra fyrtiofem fyrtiosex fyrtiosju fyrtioåtta fyrtionio
    5— femtio femtioett, femtioen femtiotvå femtiotre femtiofyra femtiofem femtiosex femtiosju femtioåtta femtionio
    6— sextio sextioett, sextioen sextiotvå sextiotre sextiofyra sextiofem sextiosex sextiosju sextioåtta sextionio
    7— sjuttio sjuttioett, sjuttioen sjuttiotvå sjuttiotre sjuttiofyra sjuttiofem sjuttiosex sjuttiosju sjuttioåtta sjuttionio
    8— åttio åttioett, åttioen åttiotvå åttiotre åttiofyra åttiofem åttiosex åttiosju åttioåtta åttionio
    9— nittio nittioett, nittioen nittiotvå åttiotre nittiofyra nittiofem nittiosex nittiosju nittioåtta nittionio
    Swedish cardinal numbers from 100 onward

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    Tocharian A

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    Previous: we, wu
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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Tocharian *treyä, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Cognate with Tocharian B trey, trai.

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    tre

    1. three

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    • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “trai”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 339-340

    Tregami

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    Tregami cardinal numbers
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        Cardinal : tre

    Etymology

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    From Proto-Nuristani *tre, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

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    tre (Gambir)[1]

    1. three

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    1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “tr′e”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[2]

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    Romanization

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    tre

    1. Romanization of 𐌕𐌓𐌄

    Venetan

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.

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    tre

    1. three

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    Vietnamese

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    • (certain coastal Northern dialects, endangered) te (dialects with /ʈ/-/t/ merger)

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    From Proto-Vietic *k-lɛː. Compare also Proto-Katuic *ʔalɛɛ (“type of bamboo”) (whence Pacoh ale (“small bamboo used for spears”)).

    Attested as tle in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

    Doublet of le (seen in măng le (“kind of wild bamboo shoots”)).

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    (classifier cây) tre • (𥯌, 椥)

    1. bamboo

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    Waigali

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    Waigali cardinal numbers
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        Cardinal : tre

    Etymology

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    From Proto-Nuristani *tre, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

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    tre (Nisheigram)[1]

    1. three

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    1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “tre”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[3]

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    tre f (plural trefi)

    1. Alternative form of tref

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    Mutated forms of tre
    radical soft nasal aspirate
    tre dre nhre thre

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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