tre

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

• IPA^(key): /tɾɛ/

tre

1. three

• tri

tre

1. very

   Mat-tre!

   Very good!

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).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢʁ̥ɛˀ]

tre

1. three

• “tre” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “tre” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from French très.

• IPA^(key): [tre]
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tre

1. very

• → Ido: tre

Borrowed from Esperanto tre, French très.

• IPA^(key): /tre/

tre

1. very

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtre/^*

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• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: tré

tre (invariable)

1. three

tre m (invariable)

1. three

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

tre

1. three; 3

• tree, treo, trew, trewe, treou, trow, trowe

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

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /trøː/
• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

tre (plural tres or treen)

1. a tree or a plant that resembles one
2. wood; timber
   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, editors, The Holy Bible, […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, OCLC 459166891, II. Timothy II:20:

     In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.

• English: tree
• Scots: tree
• Yola: tren (plural)

• “trẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• tré, tri, trí

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

• IPA^(key): /tʲrʲe/

tre (with the accusative; triggers lenition)

1. through
   • c. 1000, Anonymous; published in (1935), Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 11, page 1: “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.]”

• Second person singular: triut, tréot
• Third person singular feminine: trethe, trithe

Forms combined with a definite article:

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

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• tret, tríat (“through your sg”)

• Irish: trí, tré; tré-; fríd, ⇒ fríd
• Scottish Gaelic: tre
• ⇒ Manx: trooid

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Latin tres. Compare Italian tre.

tre

1. three

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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• IPA^(key): /tɾeː/

tre

1. three

• tredje

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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• IPA^(key): /tɾeː/

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.

From Middle Low German treden.

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

• framtre, fremtre
• fratre
• opptre
• overtre

From tråd.

• træ

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

1. to thread

   tre en nål ― thread a needle

• “tre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /treː/

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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, English three.

• tri (unofficial, høgnorsk)

tre

1. three

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

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

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

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.

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.

• treda, trede (long forms) (non-standard since 2012)

• opptre
• tre av
• tre fram
• tre i kraft

• trå (Etymology 3)

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

1. Misspelling of træ.

• “tre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ert, ret, ter

tre

1. Alternative form of tri

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

• IPA^(key): /trɛ/

tre

1. three

Short form of trebuie.

• IPA^(key): [tre]

tre

1. (informal) Alternative form of trebuie

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

tre

1. through, by means of

From Old Swedish þrir, þrī, 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.

• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

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tre

1. three

• trenne (archaic)

• trea
• tredje

• noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

• ert, ter

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

tre

1. three

• 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

tre

1. Romanization of 𐌕𐌓𐌄

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

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈɛ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʈɛ˧˧]

(classifier cây) tre • (𥯌, 椥)

1. bamboo

• trúc; nứa

• IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eː

tre f (plural trefi)

1. Alternative form of tref