tref

Compare Welsh tref (“town”).

• trev

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛf/

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tref (plural trefs)

1. (historical) A hamlet in Britain in pre-Saxon times.

See treyf.

tref (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of treyf (“not kosher”).

• FRET, TERF, fret, reft, terf

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• Rhymes: -ɛf

tref

1. inflection of treffen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• erft, fret

Old French tref.

tref m (plural trefs)

1. tent, temporary hut or other similar building

• tref² on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

• trev, treif

Inherited from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs.

tref oblique singular, m (oblique plural tres, nominative singular tres, nominative plural tref)

1. beam
2. mast (on a watercraft)
3. tent, temporary hut or other similar building

• There is no consensus what the difference between paveillon, tente and tref is in Old French. There may be no difference, or the difference may vary according to the author.

• Middle French: tref
• → Galician: treu

Borrowed from German Treff.

• IPA^(key): /trêf/

trȅf m inan (Cyrillic spelling тре̏ф)

1. ♣, clubs in card- and boardgames

• “tref”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 6, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1976, published 1990, page 285
• “tref”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• tre
• trev (obsolete)

From Middle Welsh tref, from Proto-Brythonic *treβ, from Proto-Celtic *trebā, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-, compare Cumbric *trev.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /treːv/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /treː/
• Rhymes: -eːv, -eː

tref f (plural trefi or trefydd)

1. town
2. home

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