Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/trei
Appearance
Proto-Celtic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suggested to be contracted from *trāē, from earlier *trāsē, dative singular of *trās, from earlier *trāns (“across”).
Alternatively, from pre-Celtic Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂éy, alternative form of *tr̥h₂és, both fossilized inflected forms of a root noun **térh₂s.
In either case, derived from the root *terh₂- (“to cross, go through”).
Preposition
[edit]*trei[1]
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*trē”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 388