tréyes

tréyes uig. 'dreies' 'drei-ist'

Brugmann (1892: 464) suggested original meaning "middle (= protruding) finger", quoting Sanskrit तर्मन् (tarman, “the top of the sacrificial post”) and Ancient Greek τέρθρον (térthron, “tip, end”). This idea was developed by Fay (1910: 416-17), who reconstructed *tri-sth₂-o-s (“tip finger”). In the first component he identified the locative *tr-í- “on-tip”, while the second ("stander") has also to form other finger names, e. g. Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hangúštʰas (“thumb”), Sanskrit कनिष्ठा (kaniṣṭhā, “little finger”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *pírštan (“finger”), etc.

Numeral

Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *tréyes     Ordinal : *tritós     Adverbial : *trís     Prefix : *tri-

*tréyes

1. drei

Inflection

[ more ▼]Athematic, amphikinetic
	masculine	feminine
nominative	*tréyes	*tisres
genitive	*tr̥yóHom	*tisróHom

(*tréyes)