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]

    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

    References

    1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 121: “*þrīz”
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