PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
No. The published reconstructed semantic range begins with being firm, solid, or steadfast and extends to wood and tree.
/triː/ · noun
A perennial woody plant; inherited through Old English trēow and Germanic *trewam from the firmness-and-wood branch of *deru-.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Directly publishes the full reconstructed semantic range.
deru- heading: be firm, solid, steadfast; hence wood, treeDocuments the inherited wood noun without reducing the root to that noun alone.
Etymology and akin formsThe dossier preserves a semantic range rather than inventing one “literal true meaning.”