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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtre.wɑ̃/

*trewą n

1. tree

   Synonym: *bagmaz

• 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
    • >? Middle Low German: *têr
      • ⇒ Middle Low German: egeltêr, ekeltêr, egelentêr, ekelentêr m
  • Old Dutch: trio, treo
    • Middle Dutch: tree, tere
      • Dutch: teer (mostly in compounds, like appelteer and elzenteer)
  • Old High German: *tar m; *tra, *tara, *tora f (as in affultra, holuntra, mazzaltar, mazzoltra, rekkaltra, wehhaltra, etc.)
    • ⇒ 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)