Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗to place (items) on a tray · to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
From Middle English trey, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.
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- Inherited-form mentiontreyenm
- Inherited-form mentiontrēġang
- Inherited-form mention*trauwigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*trawjągem-pro · wooden vessel
- Derivation mention*drewo-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiontreyjanon · carrier
- Cognate mentiontrøgmq-osw · wooden grain measure
- Cognate mentionTreechelnds · dough trough
- Cognate mentionδροίτηgrc · tub, vat
- Cognate mentionद्रोणsa · trough
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