Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/trewą

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From pre-Germanic *dréwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) (specifically the oblique stem *dréw-).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtre.wɑ̃/

Noun

*trewą n

tree
Synonym: *bagmaz

Inflection

Declension of *trewą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*trewą	*trewō
vocative	*trewą	*trewō
accusative	*trewą	*trewō
genitive	trewas, triwis	*trewǫ̂
dative	*trewai	*trewamaz
instrumental	*trewō	*trewamiz

Related terms

Derived terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *treu
- Old English: trēow
  - Middle English: tre, treo
    - English: tree
    - Scots: tree
- Old Frisian: trē
  - North Frisian: tre, trä
- Old Saxon: trio, treo
- Old Dutch: trio, treo
  - Middle Dutch: tree, tere
    - Dutch: teer (mostly in compounds, like appelteer and elzenteer)
- Old High German: *tra
  - ⇒ Old High German: affoltra, affultra
    - Middle High German: affalter, apfalter
      - German: Affolter
      - Bavarian: Affalter
Old Norse: tré
- Icelandic: tré
- Faroese: træ
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tre
- Dalecarlian: trai
- Old Swedish: trǣ
  - Swedish: trä (“wood”), träd (“tree”) (from the definite)
- Scanian: træ
- Danish: træ
  - Norwegian Bokmål: tre
Gothic: 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu)

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*trewa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 522-3

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*trewa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 522-3