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.

Numeral

**Proto-West Germanic cardinal numbers**
< 2	3	4 >
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, shrei, 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, dreij
    Hunsrik: drei
  - East Central German:
    Upper Saxon German: dreie
  - German: drei
  - Luxembourgish: dräi
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: drei
  - Vilamovian: draj
  - Yiddish: דרײַ (dray)

References

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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[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”