Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/trei

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 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

*trei[1]

  1. through

Descendants

References

  1. ^ 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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