thre

thre

1. Obsolete spelling of three.

thre

1. Obsolete spelling of three.

• Hert

• threo, thri, thrie, þre
• ðhre, ðre, þreo, þrie (Early Middle English)

From Old English þrīe, þrī, þrēo, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθreː/, /ˈθriː/
• Rhymes: -eː

thre

1. three
   • c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎^[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folios 6, verso – 7, recto; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:

     Almihti godd· feader· ſune· hali gaſt· aſ ȝe beoð ϸreo an godd: alſƿa ȝe beoð an mihte· an ƿiſdom· ⁊ an luue […]

     Almighty God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as both three and one, while being one Might, one Wisdom, and one Love […]

• English: three
• Scots: three, threi, hrei
• Yola: dhree, dhrie, dree

• “thrẹ̄, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse þrír.

thre

1. three

• Danish: tre

From Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ. Cognates include Old English þrī and Old Saxon thrīe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθreː/

thrē m

1. three

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: trii

  Goesharde: trä m, träi f or n

  Halligen: tree'e m, traane f or n

  Helgoland: tree

  Mooring: tra m, trii f or n

  Sylt: trii

  Wiedingharde: trä m, träi f or n

• Saterland Frisian: träi m; trjo, tjo f or n
• West Frisian: trije

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 68

• IPA^(key): /θreː/

thre

1. aspirate mutation of tre