Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/trē

This Proto-Celtic 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-Celtic

Etymology

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

*trē[1]

through

Related terms

*taras (“through”)
*trāns (“across”)

Descendants

Proto-Brythonic: *truɨ
- Old Breton: tre, dre
  - Breton: dre
- Old Welsh: troi
  - Middle Welsh: trwy
    - Welsh: trwy, drwy
Old Irish: tri, tre, tré, trí
- Middle Irish: tre, tré, tri, trí
  - Irish: trí, tré; tré-; fríd, ⇒ fríd
  - Scottish Gaelic: tre
  - ⇒ Manx: trooid

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*trē”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 388

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[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*trē”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 388