Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þrīʀ

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral

Proto-West Germanic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *þrīʀ

*þrīʀ

1. three

Inflection

No descendant preserves the final -ʀ, but it must have once been present in the southern languages on account of the word being monosyllabic.

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Old English: þrī, þrīe, þrȳ, þrēo
  • Middle English: thre, threo, thri, thrie, þre, þreo
    • English: three
    • Scots: three, threi, hrei
    • Yola: dhree, dhrie, dree
• Old Frisian: thrē, thriā
  • North Frisian: tri
  • Saterland Frisian: träi
  • West Frisian: trije
• Old Saxon: thrīe
  • Middle Low German: drê
    • German Low German: dree
    • Low German: drei, dree
    • Plautdietsch: dree
• Old Dutch: thri, *thrie
  • Middle Dutch: dri m, drie f
    • Dutch: drie, drij (dialectal)
      • Afrikaans: drie
• Old High German: drī
  • Middle High German: drī
    • Alemannic German: drüü, drü
    • Bavarian: drei

      Cimbrian: drai

      Mòcheno: drai

    • Central Franconian: drei
      • Hunsrik: drei
      • Luxembourgish: dräi
    • East Central German:

      Upper Saxon German: dreie

    • German: drei
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: drei

    • Vilamovian: draj
    • Yiddish: דרײַ (dray)