þrír

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse þrír, from Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz. Compare Faroese tríggir and Danish tre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /θriːr/ Rhymes: -iːr === Numeral === þrír (plural only, feminine þrjár, neuter þrjú) three ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== þristur === References === == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Norse ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ (þrijoʀ) (feminine plural), from Proto-Germanic *þrīz (“three”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”). Cognate with Old English þrī, þrīe, Old Frisian thrē, thriā, Old Saxon thrīe, Old Dutch thri, Old High German drī, Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (þreis). === Numeral === þrír (feminine þrjár, neuter þrjú) (cardinal number) three ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þrír Faroese: tríggir Norn: trir Norwegian Nynorsk: tri; (dialectal) trí, trir, try, (possibly influenced by Danish) tre Jamtish: trí Elfdalian: trair Old Swedish: þrīr, þrī Swedish: tre, try Old Danish: thrē Danish: tre Norwegian Bokmål: tre Scanian: tré Gutnish: trei === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þrír”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 517; also available at the Internet Archive