Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗num
A numerical value equal to 3; the number following two and preceding four. · Describing a set or group with three elements.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe digit/figure 3. · Anything measuring three units, as length. · A person who is three years old. · The playing card featuring three pips.
From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of tres and trey. Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treís), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.
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- Inherited-form mentionthreenm
- Inherited-form mentionþrīang
- Inherited-form mention*þrīʀgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*þrīzgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*tréyesine-pro
- Doublet mentiontresen
- Doublet mentiontreyen
- Cognate mentiondreide
- Cognate mentiontresq
- Cognate mentionերեքhy
- Cognate mentiontrēsla
- Cognate mentiontrīslv
- Cognate mentiontrỹslt
- Cognate mentionτρεῖςel
- Cognate mentionтрьѥcu
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