PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. True and tree are parallel descendants in different branches that meet at reconstructed *deru-; the modern tree noun is not a parent of true.
/truː/ · adjective
In accord with fact, reality, or a standard; historically an inherited word whose older center is firmness, faithfulness, and steadfastness.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Publishes parallel adjective and tree branches.
Separate *treuwaz and *trewam formations under deru-States the root relationship without a direct tree-to-true route.
Word History: true and tree joined at the rootThe canonical graph shares only the deep root and draws no tree-to-true ancestry edge.